It seems like no one had compiled a list of all names mentioned in the talk, so I just compiled a list. I hope this be easier for younger generation to know who are those people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gardner_Pfann

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Bethe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Wade_Bode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Pierce

http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?clogston...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Houser_Brattain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tukey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?chynowet...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardeen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Johnson

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=ken...

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16955

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%27ain%27t_What_You_Do_%28It%2...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issac_Newton

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Alexander_Schelkunoff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/590_Madison_Avenue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_M._Oliver

http://www.fraserresearch.org/FRbio_trustees.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Gilbert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Munro_Ross