PROFILES IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Edith Clarke was the first female electrical engineer and the first female professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems. From Wikipedia
Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is an African-American mathematician who made contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA. From Wikipedia
Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory". From Wikipedia
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor. From Wikipedia
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist who is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system. From Wikipedia.
Steven Paul Jobs was an American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial designer. He was the chairman, chief executive officer, and co-founder of Apple Inc. From Wikipedia
Michael Faraday FRS was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. From Wikipedia
Edwin Howard Armstrong was an American electrical engineer and inventor, best known for developing FM radio and the superheterodyne receiver system. Armstrong is a recipient of the IEEE Edison Medal and the IEEE Medal of Honor. From Wikipedia.
ohn Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory. Bardeen is a recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor. From Wikipedia.