Professor John R. Pierce

(1979) California Institute of Technology, USA

"To recognize outstanding advances in space and satellite technologies relevant to improving world communications"

Presented by: The Honorable Alessandro Pertini, President of the Republic of Italy at the Palazzo della Civilta del Lavoro, Rome

Dr. Pierce was the first person carefully to evaluate the various technical options in satellite communications and its financial prospects. While at Bell Labs, he designed and was responsible for the launch of the first active communications satellite, Telstar I. His work has resulted in the theoretical development of the possibilities of communications satellites and of broad-band digital transmissions via pulse code modulations and multivalent signals. Dr. Pierce is well known for his many books that explain clearly the science and technology of communications.

Bibliographies

Lucent Technologies: Features

Stanford Report

Electron Tubes

Buy Information Technology and Civilization by Hiroshi Inose, John R. Pierce

An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise

Telstar, A History

Creative Thinking

An Interview with John Robinson Pierce