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Bell Laboratories

COMPANY

Experimental arm of AT&T, now Lucent.

Industry:
Communications

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Willard S. Boyle
Physicist
19-Aug-1924 7-May-2011 Digital photography
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
Arno Penzias
Astronomer
26-Apr-1933   Detected primordial radiation
George E. Smith
Scientist
10-May-1930   Digital photography
Daniel C. Stanzione
Business
c. 1945   COO of Lucent, 1997-2000
Robert Woodrow Wilson
Astronomer
10-Jan-1936   Detected primordial radiation

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
Steven Chu
Physicist
28-Feb-1948   US Secretary of Energy
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 12-Oct-2011 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
Arnold Beckman
Inventor
10-Apr-1900 18-May-2004 Philanthropist who invented pH meter
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
Chester Carlson
Inventor
8-Feb-1906 19-Sep-1968 Invented Xerography
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
Persi Diaconis
Mathematician
31-Jan-1945   Science of random numbers
Robert C. Dynes
Educator
8-Nov-1942   President, University of California, 2003-08
Lee De Forest
Inventor
26-Aug-1873 30-Jun-1961 Inventor of the Audion vacuum tube
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
Evelyn Hu
Physicist
c. 1947   Nanoscale device fabrication
Herbert E. Ives
Physicist
21-Jul-1882 13-Nov-1953 Facsimile machine
Karl Jansky
Astronomer
22-Oct-1905 14-Feb-1950 Radio waves from outer space
Kevin Kennedy
Business
c. 1955   CEO of JDS Uniphase
Walter Kohn
Chemist
9-Mar-1923   Density-functional theory
Sir Harold Kroto
Chemist
7-Oct-1939   Co-Discovered fullerenes
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 C. Malone
Business
7-Mar-1941   Cable TV billionaire, Liberty Media
Robert W. Mann
Inventor
1924 16-Jun-2006 Prosthetic devices
Ted Nelson
Computer Programmer
17-Jun-1937   Hypertext pioneer, Xanadu
Barney Oliver
Astronomer
27-May-1916 23-Nov-1995 SETI researcher
Robert C. Richardson
Physicist
26-Jun-1937   Superfluidity of helium-3
Ellery Schempp
Activist
1940   Abington School District v. Schempp
Andrew Schlafly
Activist
27-Apr-1961   Conservapedia founder
Eric Schmidt
Business
27-Apr-1955   CEO of Google, 2001-11
Pete Sessions
Politician
22-Mar-1955   Congressman, Texas 32nd
William Shockley
Physicist
13-Feb-1910 12-Aug-1989 Co-Inventor of the transistor
Lorene K. Steffes
Business
c. 1946   CEO of Transarc Corporation, 1997-99
Charles H. Townes
Physicist
28-Jul-1915   Invention of the maser and laser
John D. Wiley
Educator
23-Mar-1942   Chancellor, UW-Madison
Kurt Wüthrich
Chemist
4-Oct-1938   Magnetic resonance spectroscopy

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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