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They’re innovative engineers whose achievements range from the dawn of the electronics era to the latest cutting-edge components. They also include shrewd businessmen who founded some of the industry’s giants as well as sharp academicians who inspired the generations of engineers who followed them. And, they’re idealists who looked beyond the next project to imagine how their designs would improve the world. They’re the 2010 inductees into the Electronic Design Engineering Hall of Fame, and we’re proud to honor them with profiles by Contributing Editor John Edwards.

You can navigate to previous years inductees by clicking on By Date of Induction or view an alphabetical list by clicking on Alphabetically.
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  • John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry: Inventing The ABC, A Benchmark Digital Computer

    John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry: Inventing The ABC, A Benchmark Digital Computer

    By John Edwards, November 22, 2010

    Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) was developed at Iowa State University between 1937 and 1942. It was the first computer to use binary digits and to perform all calculations electronically rather than mechanically.

  • B. Jayant Baliga: Designing The Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor

    B. Jayant Baliga: Designing The Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor

    By John Edwards, November 22, 2010

    B. Jayant Baliga played a major role in bringing the IGBT to reality. While working at General Electric in the late 1970s, he conceived the idea of a functional integration of MOS technology and bipolar physics—research that directly led to the IGBT’s development.

  • Hans W. Becke and Carl F. Wheatley: Discovering The IGBT

    Hans W. Becke and Carl F. Wheatley: Discovering The IGBT

    By John Edwards, November 22, 2010

    Hans W. Becke and Carl F. Wheatley, a pair of RCA engineers, are credited with co-creating the insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT). But as with so many other “breakthroughs” of the past few decades, the trail leading to the IGBT was blazed over many years by several different individuals and teams.

  • Gordon Bell: From Minicomputers To The Internet And Beyond

    Gordon Bell: From Minicomputers To The Internet And Beyond

    By John Edwards, November 22, 2010

    As one of the first employees of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC)and as the founder of Microsoft's first research laboratory, Gorden Bell is a computer industry pioneer with a long list of of achievements in areas ranging from minicomputers to the Internet.

  • Melville Eastham: Workplace Innovator Crafts Early Electronic Products

    Melville Eastham: Workplace Innovator Crafts Early Electronic Products

    By John Edwards, November 22, 2010

    Melville Eastham's breakthrough technical, business, and social achievements in the first half of the 20th century were highly influential and helped create the modern electronics industry.

  • Russell and Sigurd Varian: Inventing The Klystron And Saving Civilization

    Russell and Sigurd Varian: Inventing The Klystron And Saving Civilization

    By John Edwards, November 22, 2010

    Invented by Russell and Sigurd Varian, the klystron proved to be the key to practical microwave-based radio detection, and RADAR system developers in the U.S. and Britain embraced the device.


 
  • Arnold Beckman: Changing Scientific Research, Both Then And Now

    Arnold Beckman: Changing Scientific Research, Both Then And Now

    By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009

    This biographical sketch about Arnold Beckman, written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Beckman was the founder of Beckman Instruments and invented the pH meter.

  • Robert Boschert: A Man Of Many Hats Changes The World Of Power Supplies

    Robert Boschert: A Man Of Many Hats Changes The World Of Power Supplies

    By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009

    This biographical sketch about Robert Boschert, written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Boschert was instrumental in the development of low-cost switching-mode power supplies.

  • Jack Gifford: Baseball’s Loss Was The World’s Gain

    Jack Gifford: Baseball’s Loss Was The World’s Gain

    By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009

    This biographical sketch about Jack Gifford, written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Among other accomplishments, he founded Maxim Integrated Products

  • Nick Holonyak Jr.: 81 Years Old And Still Doing Groundbreaking Research

    Nick Holonyak Jr.: 81 Years Old And Still Doing Groundbreaking Research

    By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009

    This biographical sketch about Nick Holonyak Jr., written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Holonyak invented the first practical LED among other inventions.

  • Robert Kahn: Expect Much More Computer Networking To Come

    Robert Kahn: Expect Much More Computer Networking To Come

    By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009

    This biographical sketch about Robert Kahn, written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Kahn helped create the ARPANET and worked with Vinton Cerf to create TCP/IP communications protocols.

  • Theodore Maiman: Professional Focus, Personal Warmth

    Theodore Maiman: Professional Focus, Personal Warmth

    By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009

    This biographical sketch about Theodore H. Maiman, written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Maiman invented the first laser while working at Hughes Research Lab.