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William Shockley
American physicist and inventor (1910–1989)
Dennis M. Ritchie thumbnail
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
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Clinton Davisson
American physicist (1881-1958)
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Charles Hard Townes
20th-century American physicist
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Arno Allan Penzias
German-born American physicist
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Robert Wilson
American astronomer (born 1936)
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Steven Chu
American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate
Walter Houser Brattain thumbnail
Walter Houser Brattain
American physicist (1902–1987)
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Philip W. Anderson
American physicist (1923-2020)
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Robert B. Laughlin
American physicist
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Arthur Leonard Schawlow
American physicist
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Claude Shannon
American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
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Willard Boyle
Canadian physicist and inventor (1924–2011)
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Horst Ludwig Störmer
German physicist
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Bjarne Stroustrup
Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ (born 1950)
Arthur Ashkin thumbnail
Arthur Ashkin
American physicist (1922-2020)
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George E. Smith
Nobel prize winning American physicist
Daniel C. Tsui thumbnail
Daniel C. Tsui
Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate
Harry Kroto thumbnail
Harry Kroto
British chemist (1939-2016)
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Douglas Osheroff
American physicist
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Q1107006
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
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Liu Gang
Chinese scientist and revolutionary (born 1961)
Brian Kernighan thumbnail
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system
Louis E. Brus thumbnail
Louis E. Brus
American chemist (1943–2026)
Karl Guthe Jansky thumbnail
Karl Guthe Jansky
American physicist and radio engineer
Moungi Bawendi thumbnail
Moungi Bawendi
American chemist of French and Tunisian descent
Yann Le Cun thumbnail
Yann Le Cun
French computer scientist (born 1960)
Ingrid Daubechies
Belgian physicist and mathematician
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Alfred Aho
Canadian computer scientist
Harry Nyquist
Swedish-American physicist and electrical engineer (1889–1976)
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Robert Tarjan
American computer scientist
Walter A. Shewhart
American statistical quality control expert
Jeffrey David Ullman
American computer scientist (born 1942)
Ronald Graham
American mathematician (1935-2020)
Douglas McIlroy
American computer scientist, mathematician, engineer, and programmer
Rob Pike
software engineer
Lester Germer
American physicist (1896–1971)
Arthur Samuel
American computer scientist (1901–1990)
John C. Slater
American physicist (1900–1976)
Ralph Hartley
American electronics researcher and information theorist (1888–1970)
Rosalind Picard
American computer scientist
Jacob Ziv
Israeli computer scientist (1931–2023)
Maurice Karnaugh
American physicist (1924–2022)
Bertrand Halperin
American mathematician and physicist
Esther M. Conwell
American physicist
Hendrik Wade Bode
American Controls and Communications pioneer (1905-1982)
John R. Pierce
American electrical engineer, acoustics expert, and author (1910–2002)
Joseph Kruskal
American statistician (1928-2010)
Sidney Darlington
electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration
Neil Sloane
British mathematician
Jon Hall
programmer and major contributor to the Linux project
Erna Schneider Hoover
American mathematician
Vladimir Vapnik
Russian-American mathematician (born 1936)
George Stibitz
American Bell Labs researcher; one of the fathers of the modern first digital computer (1904–1995)
Edward Lawry Norton
engineer (1898-1983)
Persi Diaconis
American mathematician
Harold Stephen Black
American electrical engineer (1898–1983)
Conyers Herring
American physicist (1914–2009)
Federico Capasso
Italian applied physicist (1949-)
David S. Johnson
American computer scientist (1945-2016)