John Bardeen (May 23, 1908 January 30, 1991) was

an American physicist and electrical engineer, the only

person to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first
in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the
invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N
Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental
theory of conventional superconductivity known as the
BCS

theory.

Bardeen's

developments

in

superconductivity, which won him his second Nobel, are

used in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
(NMR) or its medical sub-tool magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI). In 1990, John Bardeen appeared on LIFE
Magazine's list of "100 Most Influential Americans of the
Century.

Niels Bohr(1885 1962)

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes
which can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made fundamental
contributions to understanding atomic structure and
quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize
in Physics in 1922. He postulated that electrons moved in
fixed orbits around the atoms nucleus, and he explained
how they emitted or absorbed energy. Bohr mentored and
collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century
at his institute in Copenhagen. He was also part of the team
of physicists working on the Manhattan Project. One of his
sons, Aage Niels Bohr, grew up to be an important physicist who, like his father, received the

Nobel Prize, in 1975. Bohr has been described as one of the most influential physicists of the 20th
century.

James E. Solomon (born 1936 in Boise, Idaho) is an American

engineer and entrepreneur. In his lifetime, he has founded four
companies, including one of the companies that merged to form the
leading chip manufacturing toolmaker Cadence Design Systems. He
is an IEEE Fellow and received the industry's Phil Kaufman Award in
1997. Solomon holds 23 patents in integrated chip design. Mr.
Solomon served as a Senior Vice President and General Manager of
Cadence's Analog Mixed-Signal Division from June 1989 to February
1994 and as the President of Cadence's Analog Mixed-Signal Division
from December 1988 to May 1989. He served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of
Cadence for 12 years. Mr. Solomon served as a Senior Vice President and Chief Technology
Officer of Cadence Design Systems Inc., from February 1994 to May 1996. He founded SDA,
Cadence Design Systems ("Cadence") and EDA Consortium's 1997 Phil Kaufman award winner.
Mr. Solomon served as a Director of IC Design at National Semiconductor. Previously, he started
and managed the analog IC unit at Motorola Semiconductor and was an RF/microwave designer
at Motorola Systems Research Labs. He serves as the Chairman of XULU Entertainment Inc., and
Silicon Navigator Inc. He Co-founded Smart Machines Inc. in 1994 and served as its Chairman.
He has been Director of AWR Corporation, since June 2003. He serves as a Director of CiraNova,
Inc. He served as a Director of Integrated Measurement Systems Inc., since April 1995. He served
as Director of Pyxis Technology Inc.