Bravo to Harry Nyquist and Claude Shannon! In the 1920s, these gentlemen created the now-well-known Nyquist theorem, which states that when sampling a signal at discrete intervals, the sampling must ...

As an engineer at Bell Laboratories, Harry Nyquist did important work on thermal noise (“Johnson–Nyquist noise”), the stability of feedback amplifiers, telegraphy, facsimile, television, and other ...