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Owner of the successful Hungarian Tungsram light bulb company. Worldwide leader in electronics, known primarily for their lightbulbs. Started in 1896 employing some of the most cutting edge engineers a...

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10/11/2015
7/25/2024
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Owner of the successful Hungarian Tungsram light bulb company. Worldwide leader in electronics, known primarily for their lightbulbs. Started in 1896 employing some of the most cutting edge engineers a...

7/25/2024

Earl Elmar Bakken (1924 - 2018)

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12/31/2023
12/31/2023
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12/31/2023
12/31/2023

Raymond Lawson Sitzes (1913 - 1977)

Raymond Lawson Sitzes graduated from high school in 1929, moved to Dallas and spent over two years in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Later, he was an electronics specialist with General Dynamics an...

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11/22/2023
11/25/2023
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Raymond Lawson Sitzes (1913 - 1977)

Raymond Lawson Sitzes graduated from high school in 1929, moved to Dallas and spent over two years in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Later, he was an electronics specialist with General Dynamics an...

11/25/2023

Paul Bowman Popenoe, Jr. (1922 - 2020)

PORTLAND – Paul Popenoe Jr. died on June 1, 2020, in Portland Maine. The son of Paul and Betty Popenoe, he grew up Altadena California. He served in the South Pacific with the US Army Signal Corps as a...

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5/21/2017
4/7/2023
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Paul Bowman Popenoe, Jr. (1922 - 2020)

PORTLAND – Paul Popenoe Jr. died on June 1, 2020, in Portland Maine. The son of Paul and Betty Popenoe, he grew up Altadena California. He served in the South Pacific with the US Army Signal Corps as a...

4/7/2023

Paul Schmidt (1868 - 1948)

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3/9/2022

John Vincent Atanasoff MP (1903 - 1995)

Vincent Atanasoff (October 4, 1903 – June 15, 1995) was an American-Bulgarian physicist and inventor, best known for being credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer.Atanasoff invent...

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5/10/2018
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John Vincent Atanasoff MP (1903 - 1995)

Vincent Atanasoff (October 4, 1903 – June 15, 1995) was an American-Bulgarian physicist and inventor, best known for being credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer.Atanasoff invent...

5/10/2018

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. In e...

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1/23/2007
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Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. In e...

9/17/2013

Lee de Forest MP (1873 - 1961)

"DeForest; de Forest;"

De Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and ...

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10/27/2009
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10/27/2009

Lee de Forest MP (1873 - 1961)

"DeForest; de Forest;"

De Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and ...

9/17/2013

Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor MP (1847 - 1931)

Sources:== United States Census, 1860 >Alvah Edison in entry for Samuel Edison, 1860. United States Census, 1880 >Thomas A Edison, East New Brunswick, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; citing enume...

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1/13/2009
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Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor MP (1847 - 1931)

Sources:== United States Census, 1860 >Alvah Edison in entry for Samuel Edison, 1860. United States Census, 1880 >Thomas A Edison, East New Brunswick, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States; citing enume...

9/17/2013

Charles F. Brush (1849 - 1929)

Francis Brush (March 17, 1849 – June 15, 1929) was a U.S. inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.BiographyBorn in Euclid Township, Ohio, Brush was raised on a farm about 10 miles from downtown Cleve...

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6/20/2011
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6/20/2011

Charles F. Brush (1849 - 1929)

Francis Brush (March 17, 1849 – June 15, 1929) was a U.S. inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.BiographyBorn in Euclid Township, Ohio, Brush was raised on a farm about 10 miles from downtown Cleve...

9/17/2013

H.C. Ørsted MP (1777 - 1851)

"H.C. Ørsted"

; Foto af Familien Ørsted. Hans Christian Ørsted blev født i 1777 året før hans bror, Anders Sandøe Ørsted, der blev assesor i Højesteret i 1810, men opgav senere denne post i 1813. Han var i ...

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10/2/2007
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10/2/2007

H.C. Ørsted MP (1777 - 1851)

"H.C. Ørsted"

; Foto af Familien Ørsted. Hans Christian Ørsted blev født i 1777 året før hans bror, Anders Sandøe Ørsted, der blev assesor i Højesteret i 1810, men opgav senere denne post i 1813. Han var i ...

9/17/2013

Reverend Joseph Priestley MP (1733 - 1804)

In August 1774 he isolated an "air" that appeared to be completely new (oxygen).In his paper "Observations on Respiration and the Use of the Blood", Priestley was the first to suggest a connection betw...

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4/3/2010
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Reverend Joseph Priestley MP (1733 - 1804)

In August 1774 he isolated an "air" that appeared to be completely new (oxygen).In his paper "Observations on Respiration and the Use of the Blood", Priestley was the first to suggest a connection betw...

9/17/2013

The Hon. Robert Boyle MP (1627 - 1691)

Early years Robert Boyle was born in Lismore Castle, in County Waterford, Ireland, the seventh son and fourteenth child of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. Richard Boyle had arrived in Ireland in 1588...

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The Hon. Robert Boyle MP (1627 - 1691)

Early years Robert Boyle was born in Lismore Castle, in County Waterford, Ireland, the seventh son and fourteenth child of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. Richard Boyle had arrived in Ireland in 1588...

9/17/2013

Walter Houser Brattain (1902 - 1987)

Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902–October 13, 1987) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize ...

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6/19/2011
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Walter Houser Brattain (1902 - 1987)

Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902–October 13, 1987) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the transistor. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize ...

9/17/2013

Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which al...

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Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which al...

9/17/2013

John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, t he only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and ...

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John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, t he only person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and ...

9/17/2013

James Clerk Maxwell MP (1831 - 1879)

Clerk Maxwell FRS FRSE (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist. His most prominent achievement was to formulate a set of equations that describe electricity, magnetism, a...

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6/14/2009
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James Clerk Maxwell MP (1831 - 1879)

Clerk Maxwell FRS FRSE (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist. His most prominent achievement was to formulate a set of equations that describe electricity, magnetism, a...

9/17/2013

Guglielmo Marconi MP (1874 - 1937)

Guglielmo Marconi (25 April 1874– 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, known for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of...

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6/26/2011
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Guglielmo Marconi MP (1874 - 1937)

Guglielmo Marconi (25 April 1874– 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, known for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system, which served as the foundation for the establishment of...

9/17/2013

Gustav Kirchhoff (1824 - 1887)

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (Koningsbergen, 12 maart 1824 – Berlijn, 17 oktober 1887) was een Duits natuurkundige. Kirchhoff is vooral bekend geworden door een aantal wetten op het gebied van de elektrotec...

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2/1/2012
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Gustav Kirchhoff (1824 - 1887)

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (Koningsbergen, 12 maart 1824 – Berlijn, 17 oktober 1887) was een Duits natuurkundige. Kirchhoff is vooral bekend geworden door een aantal wetten op het gebied van de elektrotec...

9/17/2013

Gustav Ludwig Hertz (22 July 1887 – 30 October 1975) was a German experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. Biography Hertz was born in Hamburg and studied a...

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Gustav Ludwig Hertz (22 July 1887 – 30 October 1975) was a German experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner, and a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. Biography Hertz was born in Hamburg and studied a...

9/17/2013