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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.

 

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