John Fleming

Name: John Ambrose Fleming

Born: November 29, 1849, Lancaster, Lancashire, England

Death: April 18, 1945 (Age: 95)

Computer-related contributions

• English electrical engineer and physicist known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, the diode, then called the kenotron in 1904.
• He is also famous for the left hand rule (for electric motors).

Significant publications

• Electric Lamps and Electric Lighting: A course of four lectures on electric illumination delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (1894).
• The Alternate Current Transformer in Theory and Practice "The Electrician" Printing and Publishing Company (1896).

Honors and awards

• Hughes Medal (1910).
• Albert Medal (1921).
• Faraday Medal (1928).
• Duddell Medal (1930).
• IRE Medal of Honor(1933).
• Franklin Medal (1935).