The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
John Robinson Pierce
Title:
Executive Director, Communications System Division
Affiliation:
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Murray Hill,New Jersey USA
Gender:
Male
Year Deceased:
2002
Award Discipline:
Engineering
Award Year:
1963
Citation:
"For his outstanding contributions to communications theory, electron optics and travelling wave tubes, and for the analysis leading to world-wide radio communications using artificial earth satellites."
Presented by President Johnson at a White House Ceremony in January 1964.