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Frederick T. Andrews

Frederick T. Andrews (1926–2013) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Laboratories who helped develop the T1 digital carrier and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.

Frederick Terman

Frederick Emmons Terman (1900–1982) was an American electrical engineer, dean of engineering and provost at Stanford, who advised Hewlett-Packard's founders and is credited with building Silicon Valley.

Frederik Sangster

Frederik Sangster (Frederik Leonard Johan Sangster) is a Dutch Philips researcher in Eindhoven credited with patenting the bucket brigade device, an analog shift register, with Kees Teer.

Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck

Friedrich von Hefner-Alteneck (1845–1904) was a German engineer at Siemens & Halske who invented the drum armature in 1872 and the Hefner lamp, Germany's light standard.

Fritz Ingerslev

Fritz Ingerslev (1912–1994) was a Danish civil engineer and acoustics expert, known as Denmark's 'noise-professor', who led the Acoustics Laboratory and chaired international noise control bodies.

Gabor C. Temes

Gabor C. Temes is a Hungarian-born electrical engineer, professor at Oregon State University, known for pioneering work on switched-capacitor circuits and delta-sigma data conversion, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.

Gabriel Chike Ejebe

Gabriel Chike Ejebe is an American electric power systems engineer and Senior Project Manager at OATI in Minneapolis, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

Gano Dunn

Gano Dunn (1870–1953) was an American electrical engineer who headed the J. G. White Engineering Corporation for four decades, led Cooper Union's trustees, and received the 1937 Edison Medal.

Gene Alan Frantz

Gene Alan Frantz is an American electrical engineer known as "the Father of DSP" for leading digital signal processor development at Texas Instruments, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020.

Geoffrey Dummer

Geoffrey Dummer (1909–2002) was a British electronics engineer at the Royal Radar Establishment who in 1952 published the first public description of the integrated circuit, though he never built one.

George Ashley Campbell

George Ashley Campbell (1870–1954) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories whose loading coil made economical long-distance telephony possible and whose electric wave filter underlies frequency-division multiplexing.

George Clement Dacey

George Clement Dacey (1921–2010) was an American engineer and physicist who helped build the first working field-effect transistor at Bell Labs and later led Sandia National Laboratories.

George H. Heilmeier

George H. Heilmeier was an American electrical engineer who demonstrated the first working liquid crystal display at RCA Laboratories, and later directed DARPA and led Bellcore.

George Hockham

George Alfred Hockham (1938–2013) was a British electronics engineer who, with Charles Kao, co-authored the 1966 paper founding optical fiber communication, supplying the waveguide theory and fiber-dimension calculations.

George I. Haddad

George I. Haddad is an electrical engineer at the University of Michigan known for microwave electronics research and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

George L. Turin

George Lewis Turin (1930–2014) was an American electrical engineer who joined UC Berkeley in 1960, chaired its EECS department, and did pioneering work on urban radio multipath.

George Owen Squier

George Owen Squier was a U.S. Army major general and inventor who invented telephone carrier multiplexing in 1910, became the first airplane passenger in 1908, and founded Muzak.

George W. Swenson Jr.

George W. Swenson Jr. (1922–2017) was an American electrical engineer and radio astronomer at the University of Illinois, known for the 400-foot telescope at the Vermilion River Observatory.

George Warner Swenson

George Warner Swenson (1922–2017) was an American electrical engineer and radio astronomer at the University of Illinois, known for the 400-foot telescope at the Vermilion River Observatory.

Georges A. Deschamps

Georges A. Deschamps (1911–1998) was a French-born electrical engineer who proposed the microstrip antenna in 1953 and later taught electromagnetic theory at the University of Illinois.

Georgios Giannakis

Georgios Giannakis (Γεώργιος Μπ. Γιαννάκης) is a Greek-American electrical engineer and McKnight Presidential Chair professor at the University of Minnesota, known for statistical signal processing.

Gerald Paul Dinneen

Gerald Paul Dinneen was an American electrical engineer and mathematician who directed MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 1970 to 1977, then served as a US Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1977 to 1981.

Gerard J. Foschini

Gerard J. Foschini (1940–2023) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs who created BLAST, the layered space-time theory behind MIMO wireless, and won the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.

Gerhard M. Sessler

Gerhard M. Sessler, born 1931 in Rosenfeld, Germany, is a German physicist who co-invented the foil electret microphone with James West at Bell Labs in 1962.

Gert Cauwenberghs

Gert Cauwenberghs is a Belgian-trained engineer and Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego who pioneered energy-efficient neuromorphic chips emulating the brain and co-founded the EEG company Cognionics.

Giancarlo Vallauri

Giancarlo Vallauri (1882–1957) was an Italian engineer and naval officer, the leading Italian telecommunications specialist after Marconi, who gave the first analytical theory of the triode.

Giuseppe Caire

Giuseppe Caire is an Italian information theorist and Alexander von Humboldt Professor at TU Berlin, known for bit-interleaved coded modulation and multiuser MIMO, winner of the 2021 Leibniz Prize.

Glenn W. Stagg

Glenn W. Stagg (1923–2009) was an American electrical engineer at American Electric Power who led the first successful large-scale load flow computer program, completed in 1957.

Gordon S. Brown

Gordon S. Brown (1907–1996) was an Australian-born American electrical engineer who spent his career at MIT, founding the Servomechanisms Laboratory and co-writing the seminal feedback-control textbook.

Gordon S. Kino

Gordon S. Kino (1928–2017) was an Australian-born American electrical engineer and applied physicist at Stanford, best known for inventing the ultra-fast confocal scanning optical microscope and holding more than 90 patents.