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Beginnings of radio astronomy 17 May 2012 | 01:27 am
Grote Reber, inventor of the radio telescope. Arecibo Telescope, Puerto Rico. In 1925, just a dozen years after engineers learned to generate radio waves using an electron tube, Gregory Breit and Me...
Max Mathews 11 May 2012 | 01:52 am
[edit] Biography Born: 13 November 1926 Died: 21 April 2011 Electrical engineer Max Matthews is a pioneer in using computers to compose and perform music, and is considered one of the “fathers” of ...
IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society History 11 May 2012 | 01:43 am
March 9, 1950 - First meeting of the IRE Professional Group on Instrumentation March 25, 1963 - Name change to IEEE Professional Technical Group on Instrumentation and Measurement August 24, 1964 - ...
Robert A. Millikan 11 May 2012 | 01:42 am
[edit] Biography Born: 22 March 1868 Died: 19 December 1953 Robert Andrews Millikan was born in Morrison, Illinois, on 22 March 1868. Raised in Maquoketa, Iowa, where his family moved in 1875, you...
Morris D. Hooven 11 May 2012 | 01:38 am
[edit] Biography Born: 30 May 1897 Died: October 1976 Morris D. Hooven was born on 30 May 1897 in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, and graduated in 1914 from Turtle Creek High School in the Pittsburgh area....
Morris E. Leeds 11 May 2012 | 01:37 am
[edit] Biography Born: 6 March 1869 Died: 8 February 1952 Morris Evans Leeds was born in Philadelphia, 6 March 1869, to Barclay Robert and Mary (Maule) Leeds. He received his preparatory education a...
Don Eigler 11 May 2012 | 01:34 am
[edit] Don Eigler Don Eigler The letters “IBM” spelled in xenon atoms, as imaged by the atomic force microscope. Courtesy: IBM. Don Eigler is a physicist at IBM’s Almaden Research Center in San Jos...
Albert H. Taylor 11 May 2012 | 01:31 am
[edit] Biography born January 1, 1874 died December 11, 1961 Albert Hoyt Taylor was born in Chicago, IL, on 1 January 1879 and graduated from Northwestern University in 1902. He undertook his first ...
Frederick Vinton Hunt 11 May 2012 | 01:28 am
[edit] Frederick Vinton Hunt Born: 15 February 1905 Died: 20 April 1972 Frederick Vinton Hunt was an American educator and scientist who contributed substantially to numerous aspects of acoustical e...
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 1962 6 Apr 2012 | 05:28 am
[edit] Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, 1962 Stanford, CA Dedicated February 1984 - IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Council (ASME National Historic Engineering Landmark, with IEEE) The Stanford two-....
