Category
page 1IEEE Edison Medal recipients
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
Robert A. Millikan
American physicist (1868–1953)
Isamu Akasaki
Japanese engineer (1929-2021)
Lee de Forest
American inventor (1873–1961)
George Westinghouse
American inventor and businessman (1846–1914)
Vannevar Bush
American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890–1974)
Howard H. Aiken
pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer (1900-1973)
Edwin Howard Armstrong
American electrical engineer and inventor (1890–1954)
Ralph H. Baer
German-born American inventor and engineer (1922–2014)
Vladimir K. Zworykin
Russian-American engineer (1888–1982)
Mihajlo Pupin
Serbian-American physicist, physical chemist and philanthropist (1858–1935)
Robert Adler
American physicist and inventor (1913–2007)
Ray Dolby
American engineer and inventor of the Dolby noise reduction system (1933-2013)
Charles F. Kettering
American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 140 patents (1876–1958)
Elihu Thomson
American inventor (1853–1937)
Ernst Alexanderson
Swedish American electrical engineer (1878–1975)
Nick Holonyak
American physicist (1928–2022)
William David Coolidge
American physicist (1873–1975)
Kees Schouhamer Immink
Dutch electrical engineer, physicist, inventor and university teacher (born 1946)
Arthur E. Kennelly
American electrical engineer (1861–1939)
Edison Medal
award presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Charles Francis Brush
American businessman (1849–1929)
John R. Pierce
American electrical engineer, acoustics expert, and author (1910–2002)
Esther M. Conwell
American physicist
Hendrik Wade Bode
American Controls and Communications pioneer (1905-1982)
Robert H. Dennard
American engineer and inventor
Bill Pickering
rocket scientist born in New Zealand
Frank J. Sprague
American naval officer and railroad pioneer (1857-1934)
Sidney Darlington
electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration
Rolf Landauer
American-German physicist, engineer (1927-1999)
Willis Rodney Whitney
American chemist and founder of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company (1868-1958)
William Stanley
American physicist (1858–1916)
Eli Yablonovitch
American physicist
Ursula Keller
Swiss laser physicist and university teacher (born 1959)
Federico Capasso
Italian applied physicist (1949-)
Dov Frohman
Israeli electrical engineer (born 1939)
Bernard Tellegen
Dutch electrical engineer and inventor (1900-1990)
Jun-ichi Nishizawa
Japanese physicist (1926-2018)
Frank Conrad
American electrical engineer (1874–1941)
John Joseph Carty
(1861-1932) American electrical engineer
Oliver Ellsworth Buckley
American electrical engineer (1887–1959)
Frank B. Jewett
American physicist (1879–1949)
John D. Kraus
American astronomer
Benjamin Garver Lamme
American electrical engineer (1864–1924)
Eugene I. Gordon
American physicist
Dave Forney
American information theorist (born 1940)
Joseph Slepian
American mathematician (1891–1969)
William Le Roy Emmet
American engineer (1859–1941)
George Ashley Campbell
American electrical engineer (1870–1954)
Harris J. Ryan
American engineer (1866–1934)
John White Howell
(1857-1937) American electrical engineer
James L. Flanagan
American engineer (1925-2015)
Albert Rose
American physicist (1910–1990)
Gano Dunn
American academic administrator (1870-1953)
Frede Blaabjerg
Danish electrical engineer
Leonid A. Umansky
Russian engineer
Cummings C. Chesney
American electrical engineer (1863–1947)
Tingye Li
Laser pioneer and optical fibers expert (1931–2012)
Lewis B. Stillwell
American engineer (1863–1941)