Harry Nyquist

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Harry Nyquist was a Swedish-American engineer and physicist whose pioneering work in information theory, telecommunications, and control systems laid foundational principles such as the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem and Nyquist stability criterion.

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Harry Nyquist canonical 8
Harry Theodor Nyquist 1
Nyquist 1

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instanceOf electrical engineer
engineer
person
physicist
academicDegree PhD in physics
awardReceived IEEE Medal of Honor
birthDate 1889-02-07
birthPlace Nilsby, Värmland County, Sweden
countryOfCitizenship Sweden
United States of America
deathDate 1976-04-04
educatedAt University of North Dakota
Yale University
employer Bell Telephone Laboratories
surface form: AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories

American Telephone and Telegraph Company
ethnicOrigin Swedish
familyName Harry Nyquist self-linksurface differs
surface form: Nyquist
fieldOfWork communication theory
control theory
electrical engineering
information theory
telecommunications
givenName Harry
hasNationality Swedish-American
influenced Claude Shannon
Norbert Wiener
Rudolf E. Kálmán
knownFor analysis of thermal noise in electrical circuits
formulation of sampling criteria for band-limited signals
foundational contributions to information theory
foundational contributions to telecommunications engineering
stability analysis of feedback control systems
languageSpoken English
Swedish
memberOf American Physical Society
Institute of Radio Engineers
name Harry Nyquist self-link
notableWork 1928 paper "Certain Topics in Telegraph Transmission Theory"
Nyquist plot
Nyquist rate concept
Nyquist stability criterion
Nyquist theorem
surface form: Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem

Thermal noise and Johnson–Nyquist noise theory
residence United States of America
workLocation Murray Hill, New Jersey
surface form: Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States of America

New York
surface form: New York, United States of America

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Harry Nyquist name Harry Nyquist self-link
Harry Nyquist familyName Harry Nyquist self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Nyquist
Bode influencedBy Harry Nyquist
subject surface form: Hendrik Wade Bode
Nyquist theorem namedAfter Harry Nyquist
Harry fullName Harry Nyquist
subject surface form: Harry Nyquist
this entity surface form: Harry Theodor Nyquist
Nyquist plot namedAfter Harry Nyquist
1928 paper "Certain Topics in Telegraph Transmission Theory" author Harry Nyquist
subject surface form: Certain Topics in Telegraph Transmission Theory