Yuk Wing Lee, Chinese / US electrical engineer (Macao 14 April 1904 – California November 1989)

Authored 25 papers

First used the term network synthesis filters in modern sense (1930)

First used the term synthesis to describe the process of assembling an array of elements to meet a specific set of performance requirements in Synthesis of Networks by means of Fourier transforms of Laguerre functions (1932)

Authored Applications of Statistical Methods to Communication Problems with great repercussion (1950)

Authored book Statistical Theory of Communication (1960) regarded as a milestone in the history of communication theory 

Developed and patented electrical network systems with N. Wiener (1930-6)

Held at least 3 patents with Norbert Wiener