ATDDTA (3): Murray Hill 68:10
Richard Fiero
rfiero at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 17:28:09 CST 2007
AtD 68:10 - "Murray Hill? Eh, I got cousins there."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs
During the 1920s, the one-time pad cipher was invented by Gilbert
Vernam and Joseph Mauborgne at the labs; Bell's Claude Shannon later
proved that it was unbreakable.
. . .
In 1970, Dennis Ritchie developed the C programming language for use
in writing the UNIX operating system (also developed at Bell Labs).
. . .
There have been 6 Nobel Prizes awarded for work done at Bell Labs.
1998 Horst Stormer, Robert Laughlin, and Daniel Tsui, were awarded
the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and explanation of the
fractional quantum Hall effect.
1997 Steven Chu, shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing
methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
1978 Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson shared the Nobel Prize in
Physics. Penzias and Wilson were cited for their discovery of cosmic
microwave background radiation, a nearly uniform glow that fills
space in the microwave part of the spectrum.
1977 Philip W. Anderson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for
developing an improved understanding of the electronic structure of
glass and magnetic materials.
1956 John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley received
the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the transistor.
1937 Clinton J. Davisson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for
demonstrating the wave nature of matter.
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