PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION

Founded 1912 in New York City, and merged with the American Institute of Electrical Engineers to form IEEE in 1963.

Founding Date:
1912

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Howard Aiken	Physicist	8-Mar-1900	14-Mar-1973	Designer of early computers
Ernst F. W. Alexanderson	Inventor	25-Jan-1878	14-May-1975	Developed radio and television at GE and RCA
Edward Victor Appleton	Physicist	6-Sep-1892	21-Apr-1965	Ionosphere, shortwave radio
Gregory Breit	Physicist	14-Jul-1899	11-Sep-1981	Proton-proton dispersion
Edward Condon	Physicist	2-Mar-1902	26-Mar-1974	Quantum Mechanics
Charles J. Van Depoele	Inventor	27-Apr-1846	18-Mar-1892	Trolley car pioneer
John Presper Eckert	Computer Programmer	9-Apr-1919	3-Jun-1995	ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers
Lee De Forest	Inventor	26-Aug-1873	30-Jun-1961	Inventor of the Audion vacuum tube
Ivan Getting	Inventor	18-Jan-1912	11-Oct-2003	Global Positioning System
Wilson Greatbatch	Inventor	6-Sep-1919	27-Sep-2011	Implantable pacemaker
John William Mauchly	Physicist	30-Aug-1907	8-Jan-1980	ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers
Grote Reber	Astronomer	22-Dec-1911	20-Dec-2002	First radio astronomer
Percy Spencer	Scientist	19-Jul-1894	8-Sep-1970	Invented the microwave oven
Frederick Terman	Scientist	7-Jun-1900	19-Dec-1982	Stanford Research Park
Elihu Thomson	Inventor	29-Mar-1853	13-Mar-1937	Electric welding and A/C motors

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