Harry

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Harry is the given name of Harry Nyquist, a pioneering engineer and physicist known for foundational contributions to information theory and telecommunications.

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instanceOf engineer
person
physicist
academicDegree PhD in physics
awardReceived IEEE Medal of Honor
Stuart Ballantine Medal
countryOfCitizenship Sweden
United States of America
dateOfBirth 1889-02-07
dateOfDeath 1976-04-04
doctoralAdvisor Henry Andrews Bumstead
educatedAt University of North Dakota
Yale University
employer American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell Telephone Laboratories
familyName Nyquist
fieldOfWork control theory
electrical engineering
information theory
telecommunications
fullName Harry Nyquist
surface form: Harry Theodor Nyquist
gender male
givenName Harry self-linksurface differs
hasConceptNamedAfter Nyquist theorem
surface form: Nyquist frequency

Thermal noise and Johnson–Nyquist noise theory
surface form: Nyquist noise

Nyquist plot
Nyquist theorem
surface form: Nyquist rate

Nyquist stability criterion
influenced Claude Shannon
Norbert Wiener
knownFor Nyquist plot
Nyquist theorem
surface form: Nyquist rate

Nyquist stability criterion
Nyquist theorem
surface form: Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem

telegraph transmission theory
thermal noise analysis
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf National Academy of Sciences
surface form: National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
nativeLanguage Swedish
notableStudent Hendrik Wade Bode
notableWork 1928 paper "Certain Topics in Telegraph Transmission Theory"
surface form: Certain topics in telegraph transmission theory (1928 paper)

Thermal noise and Johnson–Nyquist noise theory
surface form: Thermal agitation of electric charge in conductors (1928 paper)
placeOfBirth Nilsby, Värmland County, Sweden
placeOfDeath Harlingen, Texas, United States
workLocation New Jersey, United States
New York
surface form: New York, United States

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Harry Nyquist givenName Harry
Harry givenName Harry self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Harry Nyquist