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Honor Database

Displaying 101 – 120 of 184 Honorees (Category: Science & Engineering, with portraits)

  • Michael Hatzakis

    Co-developer of electron beam lithography, PMMA resist, and the "lift off" process, Hatzakis has been a researcher with IBM Research at Yorktown Heights, New York since 1961, serving as a manager of...

  • Jie Liu

    Leader of Microsoft Research's Sensing and Energy Research Group (SERG), Liu has conducted fundamental and applied research in sensing and energy-efficient computing with applications in sensor networks, data centers, and mobile computing....

  • Jagadish Chandra Bose

    Named by IEEE as one of the fathers of radio science, Bose pioneered the investigation of radio and microwave optics, made very significant contributions to plant science, and laid the foundations of...

  • Charles Henry Bennett

    Co-discoverer of quantum cryptography and one of the founding fathers of modern quantum information theory, Bennett is a physicist, information theorist, and IBM Fellow at IBM Research. His work at IBM has...

  • Michelle Simmons

    Named Australian of the Year in January 2018 for her work and dedication to quantum information science, Simmons is an Australian quantum physicist recognized for her foundational contributions to the field of...

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    King-Sun Fu

    A pioneer in the field of pattern recognition and machine intelligence, Fu is considered to be the "father of automatic pattern recognition," and was widely recognized for his extensive contributions to the...

  • Puneet Sharma

    Recognized for work on Mobile Collaborative Communities featured in New Scientist Magazine, Sharma has served as a Senior Research Scientist at HP Labs, conducting research on Network Measurement and Monitoring, Wireless Networks,...

  • Reona (Leo) Esaki

    Inventor of the Esaki tunnel diode, the first quantum electron device, Esaki shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his discovery of the...

  • Joshua Lederberg

    American molecular biologist known for his work in genetics, artificial intelligence, and space exploration, Lederberg was just 33 years old when he won the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for...

  • Charles Kuen Kao

    Pioneer in the development and use of fiber optics in telecommunications, Kao is known as the "Godfather of Broadband," "Father of Fiber Optics," and "Father of Fiber Optic Communications." He was jointly...

  • Elaine Surick Oran

    Considered a world authority on numerical methods for large-scale simulation of physical systems, Oran pioneered computational technology to solve complex reactive flow problems. Her work unified concepts from science, mathematics, engineering, and...

  • Thelma Estrin

    One of the first to apply computer technology to healthcare and medical research, Estrin was a computer scientist and engineer who did pioneering work in the fields of expert systems and biomedical...

  • Rolf William Landauer

    A significant contributor in diverse areas of the thermodynamics of information processing, condensed matter physics, and the conductivity of disordered media, Landauer was a German-American physicist who made important contributions across these...

  • Recognized as the "Father of Operations Research" for helping establish one of the world's first Departments of Operations Research, Ackoff is also celebrated internationally as a pragmatic academic, systems thinker, and prolific...

  • Stuart Parkin

    Pioneer in the science and application of spintronic materials, Parkin has served as Manager of the Magnetoelectronics group at IBM Research, Almaden, in San Jose, California, and as a 1999 IBM Fellow...

  • Dean Everett Wooldridge

    Co-founder of the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, which was awarded the prime contract for overall systems engineering and technical direction of the nation's Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Program, Wooldridge was a prominent engineer in...

  • A.J. Han Vinck

    Recipient of the IEEE ISPLC2006 Achievement award for his contributions to Power Line Communications, Vinck has also held a chair for Digital Communications at the Institute for Experimental Mathematics at the University...

  • Norman A. Phillips

    A major co-contributor to the prediction of weather and climate using numerical methods, Phillips was the first to show, with a simple General Circulation model, that weather prediction with numerical models was...

  • Karl Alexander Müller

    Co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their work in superconductivity in ceramic materials, Müller is a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate. In 1986 they showed...

  • Leonard Kleinrock

    Known as a "Father of the Internet," Kleinrock is an American engineer and computer scientist who made several important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical side...