William Eccles

Updated: 09/15/2017 by Computer Hope

Name: William Henry Eccles

Born: August 23, 1875, in Barrow-in-Furness, England

Death: April 29, 1966 (Age: 91)

Computer-related contributions

British physicist and a pioneer in the development of radio communication.
Eccles invented the term diode to describe an evacuated glass tube containing two electrodes; an anode and a cathode.
In 1918, he worked to patent the flip-flop circuit, which became the basis of electronic memory in computers.
He helped in the design of the first long wave radio station.