Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born June 8, 1955), also called TimBL, is an English computer scientist who created the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a research professor at the University of Oxford and a former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). On March 12, 1989, Berners-Lee suggested a way to organize information.
Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), known as “the Mayor of Silicon Valley,” was an American physicist and business leader. He helped start Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He also helped create the first monolithic integrated circuit, or microchip, made with silicon.
Jack St. Clair Kilby was born on November 8, 1923, and passed away on June 20, 2005. He was an American electronics engineer who helped create the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958.
Grace Brewster Hopper (born Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. She was a pioneer in computer programming. Hopper developed the idea for programming languages that work on different computers.
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1888/1889 – July 29, 1982) was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and someone who helped start television technology. Zworykin created a television system that sent and received images using special tubes called cathode-ray tubes. He helped make television work better starting in the early 1930s, including developing types of tubes that stored electric charges, tubes that worked with invisible light, and a tool called an electron microscope.
Clarence Birdseye was born on December 9, 1886, and died on October 7, 1956. He was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist who is considered the founder of the modern frozen food industry. He started the frozen food company Birds Eye.
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor who received the first patent for television from the United States Government. He also created a video camera tube and an image dissector. He made and sold a working television system with a receiver and camera.
Fritz Pfleumer (20 March 1881 – 29 August 1945) was a German engineer who invented magnetic tape for recording sound.
Leo Hendrik Baekeland HonFRSE ( / ˈb eɪ k l æ n d / BAYK-land, Dutch: [ˈleːjoː ˈɦɛndrɪɡ ˈbaːkəlɑnt]; November 14, 1863 – February 23, 1944) was a Belgian chemist. He studied in Belgium and Germany but worked mostly in the United States. He is best known for inventing Velox photographic paper in 1893 and Bakelite in 1907.
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born scientist who studied how the universe works. He is best known for creating the theory of relativity. Einstein also helped develop quantum theory.