John Robinson Pierce

GPTKB entity

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gptkb:IEEE_Medal_of_Honor
gptkb:Stuart_Ballantine_Medal
gptkbp:birthDate 1910-03-27
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Des_Moines,_Iowa,_United_States
gptkbp:collaboratedWith gptkb:Claude_Shannon
gptkb:Rudolf_Kompfner
gptkbp:contributedTo satellite communications
speech processing
psychoacoustics
development of traveling-wave tube
digital music synthesis
gptkbp:deathDate 2002-04-02
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Sunnyvale,_California,_United_States
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:William_Smythe
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Bell_Labs
gptkb:California_Institute_of_Technology
gptkb:Stanford_University
gptkbp:field gptkb:communication
gptkb:information_theory
acoustics
electrical engineering
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label John Robinson Pierce
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Claude_Shannon
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Telstar_satellite
satellite communications
naming the transistor
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:engineer
gptkb:professor
author
gptkbp:pseudonym gptkb:J._J._Coupling
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Ellen_Pierce
gptkbp:wrote gptkb:An_Introduction_to_Information_Theory:_Symbols,_Signals_and_Noise
gptkb:Electrons,_Waves,_and_Messages
gptkb:Man's_World_of_Sound
gptkb:The_Science_of_Musical_Sound
gptkb:Theory_of_the_Linear_Electron_Accelerator
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