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Also Known As Marty Cooper
Born December 26, 1928 (age 96) • Chicago • Illinois
Awards And Honors Draper Prize (2013)
Jack Kilby
American engineer
Robert Kahn
American computer scientist
Harold Rosen
American engineer
Robert H. Dennard
American engineer
Armstrong, Edwin H.
Edwin H. Armstrong
American inventor
Charles Steinmetz.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
American engineer
Zworykin, Vladimir
Vladimir Zworykin
American engineer and inventor
Steve Wozniak in 2014
Steve Wozniak
American electronics engineer
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Seymour Cray
American engineer
William P. Lear
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George Washington Pierce
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Simon Ramo
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Pickering, William Hayward; Johnson, Lyndon
William Hayward Pickering
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Elihu Thomson
American electrical engineer and inventor
Alexanderson alternator
Ernst F.W. Alexanderson
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Mauchly, John
John Mauchly
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