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COMPANY

Experimental arm of AT&T, now Lucent.

Industry:
Communications

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Dave Ditzel
Engineer
c. 1956   Founder of Transmeta
Jeong H. Kim
Business
c. 1961   President of Bell Laboratories
Arun Netravali
Business
26-May-1946   Chief Scientist at Lucent, 2002-03
Daniel C. Stanzione
Business
c. 1945   COO of Lucent, 1997-2000

NOTABLE EMPLOYEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Philip W. Anderson
Physicist
13-Dec-1923   Solid state physics
John Bardeen
Physicist
23-May-1908 30-Jan-1991 Co-Inventor of the transistor
Steve Bourne
Computer Programmer
?   /bin/sh
Walter H. Brattain
Physicist
10-Feb-1902 13-Oct-1987 Co-Inventor of the transistor
Chester Carlson
Inventor
8-Feb-1906 19-Sep-1968 Invented Xerography
Steven Chu
Physicist
28-Feb-1948   Trapped atoms with laser light
Shirley A. Jackson
Physicist
5-Aug-1946   NRC Chairman, 1995-99
Robert E. Kahn
Scientist
23-Dec-1938   Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol
Brian Kernighan
Computer Programmer
1942   The C Programming Language, awk
Raymond D. Mindlin
Engineer
17-Sep-1906 22-Nov-1987 Mindlin's problem
Douglas D. Osheroff
Physicist
1-Aug-1945   Superfluidity of helium-3
Arno Penzias
Astronomer
26-Apr-1933   Detected primordial radiation
Dennis Ritchie
Computer Programmer
9-Sep-1941   Co-Creator of UNIX
Arthur L. Schawlow
Physicist
5-May-1921 28-Apr-1999 Laser spectroscopy
Claude Shannon
Scientist
30-Apr-1916 24-Feb-2001 Pioneer in information theory
Horst L. Störmer
Physicist
6-Apr-1949   Fractional quantum Hall effect
Ken Thompson
Computer Programmer
4-Feb-1943   Co-creator of UNIX
Daniel C. Tsui
Physicist
28-Feb-1939   Fractional quantum Hall effect
Robert Woodrow Wilson
Astronomer
10-Jan-1936   Detected primordial radiation

EMPLOYMENT

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Gil Amelio
Business
1-Mar-1943   CEO of Apple, 1996-97
Elizabeth E. Bailey
Educator
1938   Professor, the Wharton School
Jacqueline K. Barton
Chemist
7-May-1952   Professor of Chemistry at CalTech
P. George Benson
Educator
3-Jun-1946   President, College of Charleston
Michael J. Birck
Business
25-Jan-1938   CEO of Tellabs, 1975-2004
Robert J. Birgeneau
Educator
1942   Chancellor, UC Berkeley
George Campbell, Jr.
Educator
2-Dec-1945   President of the Cooper Union
Dennis W. Carlton
Economist
c. 1950   Economics Professor, University of Chicago
Timothy Y. Chen
Business
c. 1956   Microsoft CEO Greater China Region
Frank A. D'Amelio
Business
c. 1958   CFO of Pfizer
Robert C. Dynes
Educator
8-Nov-1942   President, University of California, 2003-08
Frederick W. Gluck
Business
c. 1935   Vice Chairman of Bechtel, 1994-98
Ronald Graham
Mathematician
31-Oct-1935   Mathematician, Computer Scientist
Michael Hawley
Photographer
18-Nov-1961   Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey
Nick Holonyak
Physicist
3-Nov-1928   Light-emitting diodes
Herbert E. Ives
Physicist
21-Jul-1882 13-Nov-1953 Facsimile machine
Kevin Kennedy
Business
c. 1955   CEO of JDS Uniphase
Sir Harold Kroto
Chemist
7-Oct-1939   Co-Discovered first fullerene
Polykarp Kusch
Physicist
26-Jan-1911 20-Mar-1993 Magnetic moment of the electron
Robert B. Laughlin
Physicist
1-Nov-1950   Fractional quantum Hall effect
John Malone
Business
7-Mar-1941   Chairman of Liberty Media
Robert W. Mann
Inventor
1924 16-Jun-2006 Prosthetic devices
Barney Oliver
Astronomer
1916 23-Nov-1995 SETI researcher
Ellery Schempp
Activist
1940   Abington School District v. Schempp
Eric Schmidt
Business
1955   CEO of Google
Pete Sessions
Politician
22-Mar-1955   Congressman, Texas 32nd
Lorene K. Steffes
Business
c. 1946   CEO of Transarc Corporation, 1997-99
John D. Wiley
Educator
23-Mar-1942   Chancellor, UW-Madison

EXTRANEOUS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Bram Cohen
Computer Programmer
1975   Creator of BitTorrent
W. Edwards Deming
Mathematician
14-Oct-1900 20-Dec-1993 Quality Control guru
Henry Dreyfuss
Inventor
2-Mar-1904 5-Oct-1972 Product designer, human factors engineer
James E. Oberg
Historian
7-Nov-1944   Space exploration historian
Stephen Wolfram
Mathematician
29-Aug-1959   Creator of Mathematica


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