Who is your Electronics Hero?

[Zero999]

Not my personal hero but my county's: Alan Turing of course for helping us to win the war and it's terrible how thanked him by prosecuting him for for being gay, leading to his suicide.

[Excavatoree]

Has to be Tesla and Bob Pease. With Edison I'm always reminded of the Tesla quote about him, to experiment blindly never seemed like the true engineering way...

Tesla: "If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor."

Sorry, for so many posts in this thread, but I should have quoted this in my earlier post about Steinmetz.  One of my professors spent half of a lecture talking about how Steinmetz contributed more to electrical engineering than Edison.

[firewalker]

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger.

Quantum mechanics is related with electronics.

[A Hellene]

Not a hero (since I cannot accept the mentality of having any heroes at all, to blindly worship and follow their paradigm), but I mostly admire Nikola Tesla, whose genuine, great and extensive work was blatantly plagiarised by various "inventors," favored by the system, and literally buried by the bankers and their absolute interests in monetary gain:

• "So, where do we put the electricity meter?"
  -- J.P. Morgan, a Rothschilds' tool (Edward Griffin's "The Creature from Jekyll Island") and Tesla's late financier, 1903.

Just watch the biographical movie The secret of Nikola Tesla (1980), if you can find it anywhere! It certainly worths the time to watch it, since it was not made by the deceptive Ashkenazim Hollywood Blatant Lies Industry (tm)...

Not to mention that Tesla did not really "discover" anything just because he was a clerk in a Swiss patent office (which he was not!), having the chance to peek at other people's confidential work, like some other figures a version of history expects us to admire as genuine inventors...


-George



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[Veramacor]

Too many people got hung up on the 'hero' word.  May I suggest you substitute 'hero' with:

* who you look up to
* admire
* is a total badass

Geez!

[Kuolas]

Rigol... for making a cheap, overclocked and hackeable Oscilloscope