| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:person 
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                                | gptkbp:almaMater | gptkb:California_Institute_of_Technology 
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                                | gptkbp:awardReceived | gptkb:Edison_Medal gptkb:IEEE_Medal_of_Honor
 gptkb:Stuart_Ballantine_Medal
 
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                                | gptkbp:birthDate | 1910-03-27 
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                                | gptkbp:birthPlace | gptkb:Des_Moines,_Iowa,_United_States 
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                                | gptkbp:collaboratedWith | gptkb:Claude_Shannon gptkb:Rudolf_Kompfner
 
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                                | gptkbp:contributedTo | satellite communications speech processing
 psychoacoustics
 development of traveling-wave tube
 digital music synthesis
 
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                                | gptkbp:deathDate | 2002-04-02 
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                                | gptkbp:deathPlace | gptkb:Sunnyvale,_California,_United_States 
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                                | gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor | gptkb:William_Smythe 
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                                | gptkbp:employer | gptkb:Bell_Labs gptkb:California_Institute_of_Technology
 gptkb:Stanford_University
 
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                                | gptkbp:field | gptkb:communication gptkb:information_theory
 acoustics
 electrical engineering
 
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                                | gptkbp:influenced | gptkb:Claude_Shannon 
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                                | gptkbp:knownFor | gptkb:Telstar_satellite satellite communications
 naming the transistor
 
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                                | gptkbp:memberOf | gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
 
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                                | gptkbp:nationality | gptkb:American 
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                                | gptkbp:occupation | gptkb:author gptkb:engineer
 gptkb:professor
 
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                                | gptkbp:pseudonym | gptkb:J._J._Coupling 
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                                | gptkbp:spouse | gptkb:Ellen_Pierce 
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                                | 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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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Bell_System 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 5 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | John Robinson Pierce 
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