1979 - A.D. Moore
1980 - Emery P. Miller
1981 - Glenn Schmieg
1990 - Charles G. Kalt
1991 - William L. Smart
1997 - Joseph M. Crowley
2000 - Richard Bergen
2002 - Tim Erin
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 - INDUCTED: 1979
Contributed to science with important experiments on electricity. Introduced
the concept of positive and negative charge. Discovered the electrical nature
of lightning through the famous kite-experiment. Invented the lightning
rod.
Charles A. Coulomb 1736-1806 - INDUCTED: 1979
French physicist. Research on electricity and magnetism. Invented torsion
balance; used this to demonstrate that the force of electrostatic repulsion
or attraction is proportional to the product of the charge on each sphere
and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the centers
of the spheres (Coulomb's Law).
William Gilbert 1544-1603 - INDUCTED: 1979
Pioneer researcher who was first to use the terms electrical attraction
and electrical force. Considered to be the father of electrical studies.
Robert A. Millikan 1868-1953 - INDUCTED: 1979
American scientist. Nobel laureate. Measured the charge of the electron
and gave the first precise determination of Avogadro's number (1910). Verified
Einstein's photoelectric equation and worked on the determination of Plank's
constant (1912-15). Pioneering work on cosmic rays.
Henry Cavendish 1731-1810 - INDUCTED: 1979
Measured the capacitance of capacitors and discovered and measured specific
inductive capacity. He showed that charge is confined to the surface of
a conductor and that the force between two charges is inversely proportional
to the square of their separation to within 2%.
James C. Maxwell 1831-1879 - INDUCTED: 1981
Scottish physicist, organizer of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge,
original worker in the field of "Electricity and Magnetism", and the developer
of the famous Maxwell Equations.
Karl F. Gauss 1777-1855 - INDUCTED: 1981
German Mathematician, astronomer and professor at University of Gottingen
his alma mater. He is recognized as the founder of the mathematical theory
of electricity. His works are published in seven volumes appearing in 1862
to 1874.
Leonard B. Loeb 1891-1978 - INDUCTED: 1987
American physicist. He has made significant contributions to the understanding
of conduction through gases, including corona and spark breakdown phenomena.
He published several authoritative books on electrical discharge in gases,
processes of gaseous electronics and, static electrification.
A. D. Moore 1895-1989 - INDUCTED: 1985
Professor of Electrical Engineering, who, on retirement from the University
of Michigan in 1963, embarked on a second career of teaching, demonstrating,
and generally promoting interest in electrostatics, its principles, and
applications. He founded the Electrostatics Society of America in 1970,
authored several books on electrostatics, and traveled 160,000 miles with
his famed Electrostatic Lecture-Demonstration equipment.
Bernard Vonnegut 1914 - 1997 - INDUCTED: 1998.
Atmospheric Scientist. His enthusiastic study of clouds from the ground,
air and space stimulated world-wide interest and debate in cloud nucleation
and electrification. He was the first to develop silver iodide for seeding
clouds, showed that convective motion is one of the mechanisms for thunderstorm
electrification, and was an early investigator into the phenomenon of cloud
discharges to the ionosphere.
James R. Melcher 1936-1991 INDUCTED: 1999
Professor Melcher rediscovered and popularized the field
of continuum electromechanics. He was an inspiring teacher, an innovative
engineer and scientist, and a prolific writer with 13 patents and over 100
journal articles. He was also a thoughtful and committed activist, who believed
engineers should devote themselves to creating a better world for all of
its people.
Chester F. Carlson 1906-1968 - INDUCTED: 1979
Inventor of xerography, an electrostatic photocopying process first called
electrophotography. Carlson was active in developing xerographic copiers
of the early 1960's.
Fredrick G. Cottrell 1877-1948 - INDUCTED: 1979
Developed the first commercially successful electrostatic precipitators.
The Cottrell type precipitator is used throughout the world to remove fumes,
smoke and small particles from the air.
Harold P. Ransburg 1911-1991 - INDUCTED: 1981
Inventor of the Electrostatic Coating Process. His early recognition and
later development of the manner in which electrostatic fields could be applied
in coating operations led the way for the widespread industrial use of electrostatics
for this application.
Robert J. Van de Graaff 1901-1967 -INDUCTED: 1985
American physicist. Invented electrostatic belt generator (1931) capable
of producing direct current at potentials exceeding a million volts. He
pioneered applications of his generator for high energy x-rays and experiments
in atomic physics. Also helped develop the tandem (multiple stage) electrostatic
accelerator, a major tool for the science of nuclear physics.
Gaylord Penney 1898-1994 - INDUCTED: 1989
Invented and developed the low-voltage two-stage electric air cleaner. This
became a commercially important device for removing unwanted particulates
from the air in homes and workplaces.
Emory Miller 1908 - 2002 - INDUCTED: 2002
Former ESA Secretary/Treasurer, President, and lifeblood of the organization, into the Electrostatics Hall of Fame, Part III, at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia for his seminal work in bringing electrostatic spraying form theory to practice.
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