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

Claude Shannon

Father of information theory

John R. Pierce

Pulse code modulation co-developer

William Shockley

William Shockley

Transistor co-inventor

John Bardeen

Transistor co-inventor

Walter Brattain

Walter Brattain

Transistor co-inventor

Sallie Pero Mead

Sallie Pero Mead

Mathematician and wireless innovator

Harry Nyquist

Transmission engineering and communications systems

Otto Julius Zobel

Otto Julius Zobel

Filter design and theory pioneer

Max Mathews

Bell Labs computer music pioneer

Ken Thompson

Unix co-creator

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

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

Marian Croak

Voice over IP inventor

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

Fred Waldhauer

Audio engineering innovator

Robert Woodrow Wilson

Robert Woodrow Wilson

Cosmic radiation co-discoverer

Lester Germer

Bell Labs physicist

Frank B. Jewett

Frank B. Jewett

Radio telephony pioneer

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

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

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

Homer Dudley

Speech synthesis inventor

Lloyd Espenschied

Lloyd Espenschied

Coaxial cable co-inventor

Calvin Souther Fuller

Calvin Souther Fuller

Solar cell co-inventor

Marion Cameron Gray

Marion Cameron Gray

Discovered the Gray graph

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

George E. Smith

George E. Smith

Charge coupled device inventor

Laurie Spiegel

Electronic music innovator

George Stibitz

Relay-based computer circuitry pioneer

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

Harold Stephen Black

Harold Stephen Black

Invented the negative feedback amplifier

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

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

Co-developer of the basis for laser science

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

Walter Lincoln Hawkins

Walter Lincoln Hawkins

Polymer chemistry pioneer

Maurice Karnaugh

Maurice Karnaugh

Developed pulse code modulation at Bell Labs

William A. Massey

William A. Massey

Queueing theory expert

William Gardner Pfann

William Gardner Pfann

Bell Labs materials scientist

Simon Sze

Floating-gate memory co-inventor

Louis E. Brus

Quantum dots co-discoverer

Steven Chu

Co-developed laser cooling

Harvey Fletcher

Harvey Fletcher

Bell Lab physicist and speech expert

Osamu Fujimura

Speech science pioneer

Louis J. Lanzerotti

Louis J. Lanzerotti

Space weather pioneer

William O. Baker

William O. Baker

Bell Labs research director and president