COMPANY

Experimental arm of AT&T, now Lucent.

Industry:
Communications

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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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