SCIENTIST 1 ALESSANDRO electric battery in February 18, Italian March 5, VOLTA 1800 1745.in Como, 1827.near Como, Lombardy, Lombardy, Italy Italy 2 ALEXANDER telephone 3 March Scotland 2 August 1922 GRAHAM BELL 1847 3 ANDRE MARIE Contribution to 20 Jan 1775 french 10 June 1836 in AMPERE Electrodynamics in Lyon, Marseilles, (i.e current) France France 4 BENJAMIN Theories related to January 17, American April 17, 1790 FRANKLIN electricity 1706 5 GEORGE BOOLE Boolean algebra 2 Nov 1815 in britain 8 Dec 1864 in Lincoln Ballintemple 6 THOMAS ALWA Electric bulb February 11, American October 18, EDISON 1847 1931 7 MICHAEL Electromagnetism 22 September britain 25 August 1867 FARADAY and 1791 electrochemistry 8 SIR JOHN Vacuum tube (i.e., 29 November britain 18 April 1945 AMBROSE Diode) 1849 FLEMING 9 LUIGI GALVANI static electricity September 9 Italian December 4 1737 1798 10 WERNER CORRECT 5 December Germany 1 February 1976 HEINSENBERG PROPOSAL FOR 1901 AN ATOM MODEL 11 JOSEPH HENRY Phenomenon of December 17, american May 13, 1878 self inductance 1797 12 HEINRICH HERTZ Discovered February 22, German January 1, 1894 existence of 1857 electromagnetic waves 13 JAMES PRESCOTT Theory of 24 December britain 11 October 1889 JOULE conversion of 1818 energy 14 William Thomson, 1st Mathematical 26 June 1824 Irish born 17 December Baron Kelvin (or Lord analysis of britain 1907 Kelvin) electricity 15 GUSTAV ROBERT Fundamentals of 12 March 1824 German 17 October 1887 KIRCHHOFF electric circuits (kirchhoff’s laws) 16 JULIUS EDGAR Discoveryof April 18, 1882 Austro- August 28, 1963 LILIENFELD MOSFET, Hungarian born Electrolytic American capacitor 17 JAMES CLERK Classical 13 June 1831 Britain 5 November MAXWELL electromagnetic 1879 theory 18 NIELS HENRIK Fundamental 7 October 1885 Denmark 18 November DAVID BOHR contribution to 1962 atomic structure (electrons revolving in a circular orbit around the nucleus) 19 GEORGE SIMON Electrochemical 16 March 1789 German 6 July 1854 OHM cell, Ohm’s law 20 ERNEST Primitive structure 30 August New Zealand 19 October 1937 RUTHERFORD of an atom ( A 1871 born British positively charged nucleus at the centre of an atom) 21 WILLIAM Coinventor of BJT 13 February American 12 August 1989 BRADFORD 1910 SHOCKLEY 22 NIKOLA TESLA many 10 July 1856 Austrian born 7 January 1943 revolutionary American developments in the field of electricity and magnetism such as Magnetic flux density, wireless energy transfer 23 WALTER HOUSER BJT February 10, American October 13, 1987 BRATTAIN 1902 24 WILHELM inventor of the 24 October German 23 June 1891 ( EDUARD WEBER first 1804 electromagnetic telegraph.