John Bardeen - Bardeen is the only person in history to have won two Nobel Prizes in physics. He received his bachelor and master's degrees in electrical engineering in 1928 and 1929 respectively from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Henri Becquerel - Henri Becquerel was born into a family which produced four generations of physicists. He specialized in civil engineering at one of the most prestigious institutions in France.
Wilhelm Rontgen - Rontgen was a student of mechanical engineering at ETH Zurich. In 1895, Wilhelm produced very high energy waves called the x-rays, an achievement that earned him the inaugural Nobel Prize in 1901.
Eugene Wigner - Eugene Wigner was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1963 for contributions he made to nuclear physics. In 1921, as guided by his parents, he joined the Technical University of Berlin where he studied chemical engineering.
Paul Dirac - Dirac studied electrical engineering at the University of Bristol. In 1928, Dirac predicted antimatter which was discovered within few years by Carl Anderson in America.
Dennis Gabor - Dennis Gabor was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1971 for the invention of Holography, a technique he created in 1948 to create a photographic recording of a light field.
Jack Kilby - Kilby was an American electrical engineer who was one of the inventors of the integrated circuit, for which he won the Nobel Prize in 2000.
Simon van der Meer - Dutch scientist Van der Meer was born into a family of teachers. He received an engineer's degree in 1952 from the Delft University of Technology, which is the largest public university in the Netherlands.
Shuji Nakamura - Nakamura was a Japanese-American electronics engineer who holds over 100 patents. He won the Nobel Prize in 2014 for the creation of blue laser diodes in the early 1990s that was later on used in the HD-DVD and blue-ray technologies.
Ivar Giaever - Ivar Giaever is a Norwegian-American engineer who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in physics with Esaki and Josephson for their discoveries regarding electron tunneling.
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