Scientists in the communication world

Posted on March 2nd, 2007 at 10:11 am by

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We were suggesting names for our conference rooms. Here is what we came up with. Names of scientists in the communication world.

Some Historical figures and their contribution.

Marconi – dedicated himself to the expansion of wireless telegraphy

Bell – “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you”.

Hertz – Hertz discovered electromagnetic waves

Shannon – the father of information theory”

Maxwell – Interrelationship between electric fields, magnetic fields, electric charge, and electric current.

Nyquist – engineer who developed theories of noise, system stability, and telegraph signalling

Shockley – invented the transistor

Baudot – dedicated his life to the development of a fast-printing telegraph. Baud Rate.

Morse – inventor of the electromagnetic recording telegraph