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People Decade Early Bell Bell Labs Business Digital Electronics Math Wireless Telegraph Switching

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell

Telephone inventor and patent holder

Thomas A. Watson

Thomas A. Watson

Bell collaborator and entrepreneur

Gardiner Greene Hubbard

Gardiner Greene Hubbard

Godfather of the Bell System

Thomas Edison

Early telephone innovator

Theodore Vail

Built the AT&T monopoly

Thomas B. Doolittle

Thomas B. Doolittle

Telephone and copper wire innovator

Claude Shannon

Father of information theory

John R. Pierce

Pulse code modulation co-developer

Charles Williams, Jr.

Charles Williams, Jr.

Telephone and telegraph manufacturer

John J. Carty

AT&T Chief Engineer

William Shockley

William Shockley

Transistor co-inventor

Lars Magnus Ericsson

Lars Magnus Ericsson

Swedish telephone entrepreneur and inventor

Francis Blake

Telephone transmitter inventor

John Bardeen

Transistor co-inventor

Walter Brattain

Walter Brattain

Transistor co-inventor

Elisha Gray

Inventor and Bell competitor

Sallie Pero Mead

Sallie Pero Mead

Mathematician and wireless innovator

Harry Nyquist

Transmission engineering and communications systems

Enos M. Barton

Western Electric co-founder

John Renshaw Carson

John Renshaw Carson

AT&T transmission engineering leader

William Orton

Western Union President

Otto Julius Zobel

Otto Julius Zobel

Filter design and theory pioneer

Bancroft Gherardi Jr.

Bancroft Gherardi Jr.

AT&T chief engineer and transmission pioneer

Thomas S. Sanders

Thomas S. Sanders

First investor in Bell Telephone

Emile Berliner

Telephone transmitter innovator

Max Mathews

Bell Labs computer music pioneer

George May Phelps

George May Phelps

Telegraph and telephone innovator

Ken Thompson

Unix co-creator

George Ashley Campbell

George Ashley Campbell

Long-distance telephony innovator

William Hathaway Forbes

William Hathaway Forbes

Bell early investor and President

Brian Kernighan

Brian Kernighan

Unix and C co-developer

Arno Allan Penzias

Arno Allan Penzias

Cosmic radiation co-discoverer

Dennis Ritchie

UNIX co-creator

Manfred R. Schroeder

Manfred R. Schroeder

Speech coding innovator

Milo G. Kellogg

Milo G. Kellogg

Switchboard innovator and Kellogg founder

Bishnu S. Atal

Speech coding innovator

Ralph Hartley

Information theory innovator

Erna Schneider Hoover

Erna Schneider Hoover

Computerized telephone switching innovator

Amos E. Joel Jr.

Amos E. Joel Jr.

Electronic switching and cellular innovator

Billy Klüver

Art, technology and electronics innovator

James J. Storrow

James J. Storrow

Attorney who masterminded Bell patent litigation

Alexander Melville Bell

Alexander Melville Bell

Alexander Graham Bell's father and mentor

Marian Croak

Voice over IP inventor

Hilda Ericsson

Swedish entrepreneur

Walter Sherman Gifford

Walter Sherman Gifford

AT&T president in the 1930s and 40s

Richard Hamming

Richard Hamming

Pioneering mathematician

Robert Kahn

TCP/IP co-developer, 'father of the Internet'

Sergei Alexander Schelkunoff

Sergei Alexander Schelkunoff

Waveguide propagation researcher

Neil Sloane

Integer encyclopedia creator

Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup

Almon Strowger

Automatic switching and dialing inventor

Fred Waldhauer

Audio engineering innovator

Robert Woodrow Wilson

Robert Woodrow Wilson

Cosmic radiation co-discoverer

Lester Germer

Bell Labs physicist

Ezra Gilliland

Telephone switchboard innovator

Mabel Gardiner Hubbard

Mabel Gardiner Hubbard

Alexander Graham Bell's wife

Frank B. Jewett

Frank B. Jewett

Radio telephony pioneer

Steve Jobs

Early phone phreak and iPhone inventor

Béla Julesz

Visual and sensory perception innovator

Dawon Kahng

MOSFET co-inventor

Raymond W. Ketchledge

Raymond W. Ketchledge

Telephone switching innovator

Russell Ohl

Pioneered P-N junctions for solar cells

Gerald Pearson

Solar cell co-inventor

Tivadar Puskás

Tivadar Puskás

Telephone exchange designer

George Clark Southworth

George Clark Southworth

Waveguide developer and radio engineer

Charles H. Townes

Charles H. Townes

Microwave spectroscopy and MASER pioneer

Ruth A. Weiss

Programming language innovator

Steve Wozniak

Early phone phreak

Gertrude Mercer McCurdy

Gertrude Mercer McCurdy

Bell promoter (and Hubbard's wife)

Hendrik Wade Bode

Hendrik Wade Bode

Pioneer of control theory and electronic telecommunications

Willard Boyle

Charge coupled device inventor

Daryl Chapin

Solar cell co-inventor

Esther M. Conwell

Esther M. Conwell

Semiconductor innovator

Clinton Davisson

Clinton Davisson

Bell Labs Nobel prize winner

Henry Dreyfuss

Industrial designer

Homer Dudley

Speech synthesis inventor

Lloyd Espenschied

Lloyd Espenschied

Coaxial cable co-inventor

Calvin Souther Fuller

Calvin Souther Fuller

Solar cell co-inventor

Theodore Gary

Built empire of independent telephone companies

Marion Cameron Gray

Marion Cameron Gray

Discovered the Gray graph

William Gray

Payphone inventor and entrepreneur

Mervin Kelly

Vacuum tube innovator and solid-state team builder

Rudolf Kompfner

Rudolf Kompfner

Wave transmission and amplification innovator

Robert W. Lucky

Robert W. Lucky

Invented the adaptive equalizer

Jessie MacWilliams

Jessie MacWilliams

Coding theory innovator

Warren P. Mason

Warren P. Mason

Distributed-element circuit pioneer

J. P. Morgan

AT&T financier and banker

George E. Smith

George E. Smith

Charge coupled device inventor

Laurie Spiegel

Electronic music innovator

George Stibitz

Relay-based computer circuitry pioneer

Alfred Stromberg

Alfred Stromberg

Stromberg-Carlson founder

John Tukey

Data analysis pioneer and FFT developer

Elizabeth A. Wood

Elizabeth A. Wood

Crystallographic research leader

Philip W. Anderson

Philip W. Anderson

Condensed matter physics innovator

Mohamed M. Atalla

Mohamed M. Atalla

MOSFET co-inventor

Sosthenes Behn

Harold Stephen Black

Harold Stephen Black

Invented the negative feedback amplifier

Vint Cerf

TCP/IP co-developer, 'father of the Internet'

George Willard Coy

George Willard Coy

Developed first local exchange

Amos Dolbear

'Talking telegraph' developer

John Draper

Famous phone phreak (aka 'Captain Crunch')

Lee de Forest

Vacuum tube inventor

Richard H. Frenkiel

Richard H. Frenkiel

Cellular telephony innovator

Evelyn Hu

Nanotechnology innovator

Shirley Ann Jackson

Shirley Ann Jackson

Theoretical physics innovator

John Bertrand Johnson

John Bertrand Johnson

Discovered thermal noise in conductors

Yann LeCun

Machine learning pioneer

Bernard M. Oliver

Bernard M. Oliver

Pulse code modulation co-developer

Moses Greeley Parker

Moses Greeley Parker

Early Bell investor, had idea for phone numbers

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Co-developer of the basis for laser science

Werner von Siemens

Werner von Siemens

Siemens founder

Charles Fleetford Sise

Charles Fleetford Sise

Started Bell Canada

Harry Bates Thayer

Harry Bates Thayer

AT&T president in the 1920s

James West

Electret microphone co-inventor

Harold D. Arnold

Harold D. Arnold

First Bell Labs research director

Elizabeth Bailey

Elizabeth Bailey

First female department head at Bell Labs

Androv Carlson

Stromberg Carlson founder

William Francis Channing

William Francis Channing

Early telephone and telegraph innovator

Harold H. Greene

Harold H. Greene

Judge who oversaw AT&T's breakup

Walter Lincoln Hawkins

Walter Lincoln Hawkins

Polymer chemistry pioneer

Maurice Karnaugh

Maurice Karnaugh

Developed pulse code modulation at Bell Labs

Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi

Wireless telegraph (radio) inventor

William A. Massey

William A. Massey

Queueing theory expert

William G. McGowan

William G. McGowan

William Gardner Pfann

William Gardner Pfann

Bell Labs materials scientist

Malcolm C. Rorty

Malcolm C. Rorty

AT&T statistician and econometrics pioneer

Simon Sze

Floating-gate memory co-inventor

Louis E. Brus

Quantum dots co-discoverer

Steven Chu

Co-developed laser cooling

Martin Cooper

Cellular telephony inventor

Reginald Fessenden

Reginald Fessenden

Wireless telegraph (radio) innovator

Harvey Fletcher

Harvey Fletcher

Bell Lab physicist and speech expert

Osamu Fujimura

Speech science pioneer

Harry Fuld

German telephone entrepreneur

Dennis Hayes

Oliver Heaviside

Oliver Heaviside

Transmission innovator (inductive loading)

Hedy Lamarr

Actress and wireless telephony innovator

Louis J. Lanzerotti

Louis J. Lanzerotti

Space weather pioneer

Craig McCaw

Cellular telephone entrepreneur

Antonio Meucci

Early telephone innovator

Julia O'Connor

Telephone labor leader

Arthur W. Page

Father of corporate public relations

Mihajlo Pupin

Loading coil inventor

Helen Repa

Western Electric hero during the Eastland disaster

Granville Woods

Granville Woods

Telegraphony developer

Julius Andrae

Andrae Telephone founder

William O. Baker

William O. Baker

Bell Labs research director and president

Donald Genaro

Industrial designer

Joybubbles

Early phone phreak

Charles K. Kao

Fiber optics and laser innovator

Robert Metcalfe

Robert Metcalfe

Ethernet Co-inventor

Emma Nutt

First female telephone operator

Valdemar Poulsen

Valdemar Poulsen

Developed magnetic recording and radio transmission technology

Alec Reeves

Pulse code modulation co-developer

Johann Philipp Reis

Johann Philipp Reis

Reis telephone developer

Giles Gilbert Scott

Giles Gilbert Scott

Designer of the UK red telephone kiosk

Mark Klein

Whistleblower who exposed secret AT&T/NSA mass surveillance