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Stuart Ballantine Medal

American science and engineering award

Memorial Pages

23 memorial pages

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George E. Smith

05/10/1930 – 05/28/2025

95 years

Nobel prize winning American physicist

Barnegat

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Zhores Alferov

03/15/1930 – 03/01/2019

88 years

Soviet-Russian physicist

Saint Petersburg

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Andrew H. Bobeck

10/01/1926 – 12/14/2017

91 years

United States

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Nicolaas Bloembergen

03/11/1920 – 09/05/2017

97 years

Dutch-born American physicist

Tucson

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Charles Hard Townes

07/28/1915 – 01/27/2015

99 years

20th-century American physicist

Oakland

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Robert J. Parks

04/01/1922 – 06/03/2011

89 years

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Willard Boyle

08/19/1924 – 05/07/2011

86 years

Canadian physicist and inventor

Wallace

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Arthur C. Clarke

12/16/1917 – 03/19/2008

90 years

British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist

Colombo

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Theodore Maiman

07/11/1927 – 05/05/2007

79 years

American physicist/Inventor of first working laser

Vancouver

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Emmett Leith

03/12/1927 – 12/23/2005

78 years

Ann Arbor

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Jack Kilby

11/08/1923 – 06/20/2005

81 years

American electrical engineer

Dallas

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Adam Lender

09/15/1981 – 04/01/2003

21 years

United States

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John R. Pierce

03/27/1910 – 04/02/2002

92 years

American electrical engineer, acoustics expert, and author

Sunnyvale

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Claude Shannon

04/30/1916 – 02/24/2001

84 years

American mathematician and information theorist

Medford

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Rolf Landauer

02/04/1927 – 04/27/1999

72 years

Westchester County

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Sergei Alexander Schelkunoff

01/15/1897 – 05/02/1992

95 years

Hightstown

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Walter Houser Brattain

02/10/1902 – 10/13/1987

85 years

Seattle

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Homer Dudley

11/14/1896 – 01/01/1987

90 years

United States

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Leo C. Young

01/12/1891 – 01/16/1981

90 years

Forestville

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Daniel E. Noble

10/04/1901 – 02/16/1980

78 years

Naugatuck

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Harald Friis

02/22/1893 – 06/15/1976

83 years

Palo Alto

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Harry Nyquist

02/07/1889 – 04/04/1976

87 years

Harlingen

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Alec Reeves

03/10/1902 – 10/13/1971

69 years

United Kingdom