Frank S. Barnes (Life Fellow)
for leadership in engineering education, and for outstanding contributions to laser technology and the design of xenon-krypton flashlamps

Bruce B. Barrow (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the field of standardization and to communication theory and practice

Phillip A. Bello
for contributions to statistical communication theory, particularly in the analysis of time-varying channels

William B. Bridges
for contributions to the theory and development of gas lasers, and for studies of space-change instabilities in diodes

John L. Brown, Jr.
for contributions in the areas of statistical communication theory and underwater acoustics

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H. Warren Cooper (Life fellow)
for contributions to antenna development, microwave integrated circuit development, and the application of microwave techniques to aircraft landing systems

Lloyd P. Cornell, Jr.(Life Fellow)
for leadership in the engineering of a large utility communication network

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Nicholas De Claris (Life Fellow)
for contributions to network synthesis, system theory, and electrical engineering education

Merle R. Donaldson (Life Fellow)
for contributions to cyclotron instrumentation, and RF high-voltage measurements

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H. Brainard Fancher (Life Fellow)
for contributions to television broadcasting and for leadership in the emerging semiconductor industry

Gerald W. Farnell (Life Fellow)
for research in microwave optics and solid-state electronics

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Walter L. Glomb (Life Fellow)
for contributions to communication transmission systems, particularly those utilizing satellite repeaters

Carl W. Helstrom (Life Fellow)
for contributions to communication and detection theory

H

Andrew R. Hileman (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the theory of lighting and switching surges and for the application of insulation concepts to EHV and UHV transmission systems design

Leon Himmel (Life Fellow)
for contributions and leadership in the development of aerial navigation

Linder Hobbs (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the planning, analysis and forecasting of computer systems and technology

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Thomas Kailath (Life Fellow)
for inspired teaching of and contributions to information, communication, and control theory

Richard C. Kirby
for leadership in telecommunications research, and for contributions to radio propagation

C. Raymond Knight (Life Fellow)
for contributions to increasing reliability and effectiveness in electronic and electromechanical systems

Herbert Kroemer (Life Fellow)
for the invention of the drift transistor and other semiconductor devices

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Robert F. Lambert (Life Fellow)
for contributions to theoretical and applied acoustics with special reference to noise and system dynamics

Benjamin J. Leon (Life Fellow)
for contributions to circuit theory and engineering education

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C. Denis Mee (Life Fellow)
for contributions the physics and technology of magnetic recording

Raymond E. Miller (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the advancement of the theoretical understanding of computation through work in switching theory and theoretical models

George H. Millman (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the understanding of environmental effects of radar propagation and to the field of ionispheric radio physics

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Anthony G. Oettinger (Life Fellow)
for pioneering contributions to machine language translation, to information retrieval, and to the use of computers in education

R

Arthur S. Robinson (Life Fellow)
for leadership in digital and analog computing and control systems, solid state radar, coherent electrooptical systems, and medical electronic instrumentation

Harold A. Rosen
for contributions in missile guidance and satellite communications

William L. Rubin (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the performance of radar systems by signal processing techniques

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W. Lee Shevel (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the development of computer memories and magnetic material

Harold W. Smith (Life Fellow)
for contributions to the fields of geoscience electronics

Ronald F. Soohoo (Life Fellow)
for contributions in the fields of magnetics, ferrites, and thin films

Gus Stavis (Life Fellow)
for contributions in the development of aircraft navigation and landing systems

C. Gunnar Svala (Life Fellow)
for research in system theory fundamental electronic switching and saturation signaling

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Morris Tanenbaum (Life Fellow)
for contributions to solid-state junction devices, and for leadership in the development of advanced manufacturing technology

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William F. Utlaut (Life Fellow)
for leadership in radiowave propagation research

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Albert D. Wheelon (Life Fellow)
for contributions to electromagnetic propagation in turbulent media, and for basic exploration in missile guidance

Oliver H. Winn (Life Fellow)
for contributions and leadership in the development of radar and high-power capacitors

Robert Swern Wiseman (Life Fellow)
for scientific leadership and research and development in devices for image detection in darkness

Herbert H. Woodson (Life Fellow)
for contributions to teaching and research in the areas of energy conversion, electric machinery, and power-systems technology

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Armen H. Zemanian (Life Fellow)
for the application of generalized functions and integral transforms to network theory