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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