 Scientists associated with BYU have created some notable inventions . Philo T. Farnsworth , inventor of the electronic television , received his education at BYU , and later returned to do fusion research , receiving an honorary degree from the university . Harvey Fletcher , also an alumnus of BYU , inventor of stereophonic sound , went on to carry out the now famous oil @-@ drop experiment with Robert Millikan , and was later Founding Dean of the BYU College of Engineering . H. Tracy Hall , inventor of the man @-@ made diamond , left General Electric in 1955 and became a full professor of chemistry and Director of Research at BYU . While there , he invented a new type of diamond press , the tetrahedral press . In student achievements , BYU Ad Lab teams won both the 2007 and 2008 L 'Oréal National <unk> Competition , and students developed the Magnetic Lasso algorithm found in Adobe Photoshop . In prestigious scholarships , BYU has produced 10 Rhodes Scholars , four Gates Scholars in the last six years , and in the last decade has claimed 41 Fulbright scholars and 3 Jack Kent Cooke scholars . 
