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IEEE Medal of Honor recipients

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Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874-1937)
John Bardeen
American physicist and engineer (1908–1991)
William Shockley
American physicist and inventor (1910–1989)
Dennis Gabor
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
Edward Victor Appleton
English physicist (1892–1965)
Charles Hard Townes
20th-century American physicist
Jack Kilby
American electrical engineer (1923–2005)
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Dutch-born American physicist
Leo Esaki
Japanese physicist (1925-)
Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
Norman Foster Ramsey
American physicist (1915–2011)
Herbert Kroemer
German-American physics (1928–2024)
Paul Lauterbur
American chemist (1929–2007)
Vint Cerf
American computer scientist (born 1943)
Gordon Moore
American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
Lee de Forest
American inventor (1873–1961)
Robert Noyce
American businessman and engineer (1927–1990)
Robert Metcalfe
American electrical engineer
Lotfi A. Zadeh
American electrical engineer and computer scientist (1921–2017)
Edwin Howard Armstrong
American electrical engineer and inventor (1890–1954)
Mihajlo Pupin
Serbian-American physicist, physical chemist and philanthropist (1858–1935)
Vladimir K. Zworykin
Russian-American engineer (1888–1982)
John Ambrose Fleming
English electrical engineer and physicist (1849-1945)
Bob Kahn
American Internet pioneer, computer scientist (born 1938)
Mildred Dresselhaus
American physicist (1930-2017)
Andrew Grove
Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936–2016)
John Tukey
American mathematician (1915-2000)
Harry Nyquist
Swedish-American physicist and electrical engineer (1889–1976)
Rudolf E. Kálmán
Hungarian-born American electrical engineer
Reginald Fessenden
Canadian radio pioneer (1866–1932)
Jay Wright Forrester
American operations researcher (1918–2016)
Richard E. Bellman
American mathematician (1920–1984)
Nick Holonyak
American physicist (1928–2022)
John L. Hennessy
American computer scientist (born 1952)
Ernst Alexanderson
Swedish American electrical engineer (1878–1975)
Morris Chang
American businessperson (born 1931)
Arthur E. Kennelly
American electrical engineer (1861–1939)
Kees Schouhamer Immink
Dutch electrical engineer, physicist, inventor and university teacher (born 1946)
Ralph Hartley
American electronics researcher and information theorist (1888–1970)
IEEE Medal of Honor
award conferred by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Jacob Ziv
Israeli computer scientist (1931–2023)
Frederick Terman
American electronic engineer (1900-1982)
John R. Pierce
American electrical engineer, acoustics expert, and author (1910–2002)
Robert H. Dennard
American engineer and inventor
Balthasar van der Pol
Dutch physicist (1889-1959)
Irwin M. Jacobs
American electrical engineer and philanthropist
Sidney Darlington
electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration
Albert Hull
American inventor (1880–1966)
Andrew Viterbi
Italian-born American electrical engineer and businessman
George H. Heilmeier
American engineer and businessman (1936-2014)
C. Kumar N. Patel
Indian electrical engineer
Rudolf Kompfner
Austrian-born engineer and physicist (1909-1977)
Alfred Y. Cho
Chinese electrical engineer
Julius Adams Stratton
American electrical engineer and university administrator (1901-1994)
Thomas Kailath
American engineer
Gustave-Auguste Ferrié
French radio pioneer and army general (1868–1932)
Robert G. Gallager
American electrical engineer
G. W. Pierce
American physicist (1872–1956)
Bradford Parkinson
American systems engineer and developer of global positioning system
John Stone Stone
American electrical engineer (1869–1943)