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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Claude E. Shannon

Title:

Donner Professor of Science

Affiliation:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge,Massachusetts  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2001

Award Discipline:

Engineering

Award Year:

1966

Citation:

"For brilliant contributions to the mathematical theories of communications and information processing and for his early and continuing impact on the development of these disciplines."

Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 6, 1967.

 

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