2005
James L. Flanagan
Sustained leadership and outstanding contributions in speech technology.
2001
Herwig Kogelnik
Fundamental contributions to the science and technology of lasers and optoelectronics, and for leadership in research and development of photonics and lightwave communication systems.
1994
Alfred Y. Cho
Seminal contributions to the development of molecular beam epitaxy.
1992
Amos E. Joel, Jr.
Fundamental contributions to and leadership in telecommunications switching systems.
1989
C. Kumar N. Patel
Fundamental contributions to quantum electronics, including the carbon dioxide laser and the spin-flip Raman laser.
1982
John Wilder Tukey
Contributions to the spectral analysis of random processes and the fast Fourier transform algorithm.
1981
Sidney Darlington
Fundamental contributions to filtering and signal processing leading to chirp radar.
1980
William Shockley
Invention of the junction transistor, the analog and the junction field - effect transistor, and the theory underlying their operation.
1977
H. Earl Vaughan
Vision, technical contributions and leadership in the development of the first high - capacity pulse-code-modulation time-division telephone switching system.
1975
John R. Pierce
Pioneering concrete proposals and the realization of satellite communication experiments, and for contributions in theory and design of traveling wave tubes and in electron beam optics essential to this success.
1973
Rudolf Kompfner
Major contribution to world - wide communication through the conception of the traveling wave tube embodying a new principle of amplification.
1971
John Bardeen
Profound contributions to the understanding of the conductivity of solids, to the invention of the transistor, and to the microscopic theory of superconductivity.
1967
Charles H. Townes
Significant contributions in the field of quantum electronics which have led to the maser and the laser.
1966
Claude E. Shannon
Development of a mathematical theory of communication which unified and significantly advanced the state of the art.
1963
George C. Southworth
Pioneering contributions to microwave radio physics, to radio astronomy, and to waveguide transmission.
1960
Harry Nyquist
Fundamental contributions to a quantitative understanding of thermal noise, data transmission and negative feedback.
1955
H.T. Friis
Spectrum of radio frequencies, leadership.
1949
Ralph Brown
Contributions to radio, IRE leadership
1946
R.V.L. Hartley
Oscillating circuits, triode tubes, information transmission
1940
Lloyd Espenschied
Radio telephony, international radio coordination
1936
G.A. Campbell
Electrical networks
1926
G.W. Pickard
Crystal detectors, antennas, wave propagation, atmospherics
1923
John Stone Stone
Contributions to the radio art