Researchers in electrical engineering, semiconductors, communications, and signal processing

Gottfried Ungerboeck

Gottfried Ungerboeck is an Austrian communications engineer, the inventor of trellis-coded modulation, who worked at IBM Zurich and Broadcom and received the Marconi Prize in 1996.

Greenleaf Whittier Pickard

Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (1877–1956) was an American electrical engineer who tested thousands of minerals at AT&T and patented the silicon crystal detector in 1906, a forerunner of the transistor.

Gregory E. Stillman, also known as Gregory Eugene Stillman, was an American electrical engineer and semiconductor researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.

Gregory H. Huff

Gregory H. Huff is an antenna and microwave systems engineer, an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State since 2018 and a 2008 PECASE recipient.

Griffin Romigh

Griffin D. Romigh is an American auditory scientist and electrical engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Ohio, awarded a 2017 PECASE for early-career research.

Gunnar Fant

Gunnar Fant (1919–2009) was a Swedish speech scientist and acoustician who founded the source-filter theory of speech production and led speech research at KTH in Stockholm.

Gustave-Auguste Ferrié

Gustave-Auguste Ferrié (1868–1932) was a French army engineer-general who built France's military wireless system, made the Eiffel Tower a famous radio station, and mass-produced the vacuum tube in World War I.

H. J. Round

H. J. Round (Henry Joseph Round) was a British radio engineer at Marconi who in 1907 first reported electroluminescence, the effect behind the LED, and held 117 patents.

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H. Vincent Poor

H. Vincent Poor, born Harold Vincent Poor, is an American electrical engineer and Princeton professor known for work in signal processing, information theory, and wireless networks.

H.‐S. Philip Wong

H.-S. Philip Wong is a Stanford electrical engineering professor who works on nanoscale semiconductor devices, solid-state memory, and carbon nanotube electronics, after 16 years at IBM.

Han Wang (semiconductor physicist)

Han Wang is a semiconductor device physicist working on 2D materials for electronics, a USC professor from 2014 to 2023, now a full professor at the University of Hong Kong.

Hans Görges

Hans (Johannes) Görges (1859–1946) was a German electrical engineer who led the three-phase system at Siemens & Halske and held the first electrical engineering chair at TH Dresden.

Hans Vogt (German inventor)

Hans Vogt (1890–1979) was a German inventor and sound-film technician who, with Josef Engl and Joseph Massolle, created the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film process, ancestor of optical cinema soundtracks.

Haraden Pratt

Haraden Pratt (1891–1969) was an American radio engineer, chief of wartime NDRC communications research, and IRE president who won the Institute's Medal of Honor in 1944.

Harald Haas

Harald Haas is an engineer who coined the term LiFi for wireless communication using modulated light, co-founded pureLiFi, and became Van Eck Professor of Engineering at Cambridge in 2024.

Harald T. Friis

Harald T. Friis (1893–1976) was a Danish-born American electrical engineer at Bell Labs known for the Friis transmission equation, the noise figure definition, and his cascade formulas.

Harold A. Peterson

Harold A. Peterson was an American electrical engineer who spent twelve years at General Electric, then chaired the University of Wisconsin–Madison electrical engineering department for twenty years.

Harold Alden Wheeler

Harold Alden Wheeler (1903–1996) was an American radio-frequency engineer who invented automatic volume control, founded Wheeler Laboratories, held 180 patents, and won the 1964 IEEE Medal of Honor.

Harold Barlow

Harold Barlow (1899–1989) was a British electrical engineer who held the Pender Professorship at University College London from 1950 to 1967, pioneered surface waves and the TE01 circular waveguide, and supervised Nobel laureate Charles Kao.

Harold Beverage

Harold Beverage (1893–1993) was an American radio engineer who invented the wave antenna, patented in 1921, and became vice president of research and development at RCA.

Harold Edgerton

Harold Edgerton, known as "Doc" Edgerton, was an American electrical engineer at MIT who invented the repeatable electronic stroboscopic flash and made high-speed photographs of events too fast for the eye.

Harold Rosen (electrical engineer)

Harold Rosen (1926–2017) was an American electrical engineer at Hughes Aircraft who conceived and led Syncom, the first geosynchronous communications satellite, earning the Draper Prize.

Harris J. Ryan

Harris J. Ryan (1866–1934) was an American electrical engineer who studied high-voltage power transmission at Cornell and from 1905 at Stanford, receiving the Edison Medal in 1925.

Harry F. Olson

Harry F. Olson was an American acoustical engineer who directed acoustical research at RCA for nearly forty years and invented the velocity microphone, the cardioid microphone, and the air-suspension loudspeaker.

Harry Nyquist

Harry Nyquist, born Harry Theodor Nyqvist (1889–1976), was a Swedish-American electrical engineer at AT&T and Bell Labs known for the Nyquist rate, Johnson–Nyquist noise, and the Nyquist stability criterion.

Harry W. Mergler

Harry Winston Mergler (born 1924) was an American electrical engineer at Case Western Reserve University who first linked a computer to a remote machine tool.

Hemantha Wickramasinghe

Hemantha Wickramasinghe, known as H. Kumar Wickramasinghe, is an electrical engineer who invented several scanning probe microscopes, became an IBM Fellow, and is a distinguished professor at UC Irvine.

Henri G. Busignies

Henri G. Busignies (1905–1981) was a French-born American electronics engineer who spent his career at ITT, inventing the Huff-Duff direction finder that helped defeat German submarines and originating TACAN air navigation.

Henry Earle Vaughan

Henry Earle Vaughan was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs who directed the design of No. 1 ESS, the first major electronic telephone switching system.