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Sallie Pero Mead
Sallie Pero Mead
Mathematician and wireless innovator
John Renshaw Carson
John Renshaw Carson
AT&T transmission engineering leader
Otto Julius Zobel
Otto Julius Zobel
Filter design and theory pioneer
Sergei Alexander Schelkunoff
Sergei Alexander Schelkunoff
Waveguide propagation researcher
Russell Ohl
Russell Ohl
Pioneered P-N junctions for solar cells
George Clark Southworth
George Clark Southworth
Waveguide developer and radio engineer
Clinton Davisson
Clinton Davisson
Bell Labs Nobel prize winner
Homer Dudley
Homer Dudley
Speech synthesis inventor
Lloyd Espenschied
Lloyd Espenschied
Coaxial cable co-inventor
Marion Cameron Gray
Marion Cameron Gray
Discovered the Gray graph
Warren P. Mason
Warren P. Mason
Distributed-element circuit pioneer
George Stibitz
George Stibitz
Relay-based computer circuitry pioneer
Sosthenes Behn
Sosthenes Behn
ITT founder
Harvey Fletcher
Harvey Fletcher
Bell Lab physicist and speech expert
Alec Reeves
Alec Reeves
Pulse code modulation co-developer

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