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Robert Charles McMaster
Robert Charles McMaster (1913–1986) was an American electrical engineer, a pioneer of nondestructive testing, professor of welding engineering at Ohio State, and editor of the Nondestructive Testing Handbook.
Robert D. Maurer
Robert D. Maurer (1924–2025) was an American industrial physicist who spent his career at Corning and led the team that in 1970 made the first optical fiber with losses low enough for telecommunications.
Robert E. Fontana Jr.
Robert E. Fontana Jr. is an American electrical engineer at IBM's Almaden Research Center, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for contributions in magnetic device processing.
Robert E. McIntosh
Robert E. McIntosh (1940–1998) was an American electrical engineer and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for microwave remote sensing and airborne cloud radar.
Robert Fano
Robert Mario Fano (1917–2016) was an Italian-born American electrical engineer at MIT known for Fano's inequality in information theory and for founding Project MAC, which grew into CSAIL.
Robert Gundlach
Robert Gundlach (1926–2010) was an American physicist who joined Xerox's predecessor Haloid in 1952, held 163 patents over 42 years, and helped create the automatic plain-paper office copier.
Robert H. Dennard
Robert H. Dennard (1932–2024) was an American electrical engineer at IBM who invented the one-transistor DRAM cell and the miniaturization principles known as Dennard scaling.
Robert H. Park
Robert H. Park (1902–1994) was an American electrical engineer who created Park's transformation and equations for synchronous machines, held over 60 US patents, and won the IEEE Lamme Medal.
Robert H. Rediker
Robert H. Rediker, born 1924 in Brooklyn, is an American electrical engineer whose MIT Lincoln Laboratory group made the first gallium arsenide p-n junction diode and a working diode laser in 1962.
Robert J. Hermann
Robert J. Hermann is an American electrical engineer who directed the National Reconnaissance Office from 1979 to 1981 and later held senior posts at United Technologies.
Robert J. McEliece
Robert J. McEliece (1942–2019) was an American information theorist at Caltech and JPL, known for the 1978 McEliece cryptosystem and coding for Voyager, Galileo, and Cassini.
Robert L. Steigerwald
Robert L. Steigerwald is an American power electronics engineer who spent 37 years at General Electric Global Research and won the 1993 IEEE Newell Power Electronics Award.
Robert Metcalfe
Robert Metcalfe, also known as Bob Metcalfe, is an American engineer and entrepreneur who invented Ethernet at Xerox PARC in 1973, founded 3Com, and won the 2022 Turing Award.
Robert S. Chau
Robert S. Chau is a semiconductor engineer who led Intel's transistor research behind strained silicon, high-k metal gate, and Tri-Gate FinFET technologies, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Robert S. Elliott
Robert S. Elliott (1921–2009) was an American electrical engineer and UCLA educator known for slot array antenna design, electromagnetic theory, and the textbook Antenna Theory and Design.
Robert W. Adams
Robert W. Adams is an American electrical engineer at Analog Devices known for pioneering commercial delta-sigma audio converters; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.
Robert W. Bower
Robert W. Bower (1936–2024) was an American electrical engineer who invented the self-aligned gate MOSFET, patented in 1969 at Hughes Research Laboratory, and later taught at UC Davis.
Robert W. Brodersen
Robert W. Brodersen (1945–2024) was an American electrical engineer and UC Berkeley professor who pioneered low-power CMOS design and co-founded the Berkeley Wireless Research Center.
Robert W. Heath
Robert W. Heath Jr. is an electrical engineer working on wireless communication and signal processing, known for MIMO precoding and hybrid beamforming for millimeter wave 5G.
Robert W. Lucky
Robert W. Lucky (1936–2022) was an American electrical engineer who spent three decades at Bell Labs, invented the automatic adaptive equalizer that enabled high-speed modems, and won the 1987 Marconi Prize.
Robert Warren Erickson Jr.
Robert Warren Erickson Jr., known as Robert W. Erickson, is an American power electronics engineer and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Robert Watson-Watt
Robert Alexander Watson-Watt was a Scottish radio physicist, born in 1892, who led the development of Britain's Chain Home radar network and is known as the father of radar.
Robert Wendell Heath Jr.
Robert Wendell Heath Jr. is an American wireless communications engineer at UC San Diego, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for MIMO and 5G research.
Roberto Padovani
Roberto Padovani is an Italian-born communications engineer who led CDMA development at Qualcomm, serving as chief technology officer from 2002 to 2011 and creating the HDR technology behind 3G data.
Robin Podmore
Robin Podmore is an electric power engineer, educated in New Zealand, who founded IncSys in Bellevue, Washington, and developed PowerSimulator, a training simulator used by grid operators worldwide.
Roger Harrington (electrical engineer)
Roger F. Harrington, born in 1925, is an American electrical engineer and Syracuse University professor regarded as the father of the method of moments, which he named in 1967.
Romain Fleury
Romain Fleury is a scientist in wave physics and electrical engineering who heads the Laboratory of Wave Engineering at EPFL in Switzerland, known for training physical neural networks.
Ron Rohrer
Ron Rohrer, also known as Ronald A. Rohrer, is an American electrical engineer who pioneered circuit simulation and electronic design automation, creating the CANCER program that led to SPICE.
Ronald A. Rohrer
Ronald A. Rohrer is an American electrical engineer who pioneered circuit simulation and electronic design automation, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.
Ronald V. Schmidt
Ronald V. Schmidt (1944–2022) was an American electrical engineer known for research on acoustic surface waves and integrated optics at Bell Labs and Xerox PARC, and for co-founding SynOptics Communications.