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  2. Martin Cooper (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Martin Cooper (inventor) Martin Cooper (born December 26, 1928) is an American engineer. He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field. [2][3] On April 3, 1973, he placed the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone while working at Motorola, from ...

  3. Arlene Harris (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.dynallc.com. www.wrethinking.com. Arlene Joy Harris (born June 6, 1948) is an entrepreneur, inventor, investor, and policy advocate in the telecommunications industry. She is the president and co-founder of Dyna LLC, an incubator for start-up and early-stage organizations historically in the wireless technology field. [ 1]

  4. Vincent Price - Wikipedia

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    Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor. He was known for his work in the horror film genre, mostly portraying villains. He appeared on stage, television, and radio, and in more than 100 films. Price has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures and one for television.

  5. Vint Cerf - Wikipedia

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    Signature. Vinton Gray Cerf (/ sɜːrf /; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Bob Kahn. [2][7][8][9][10] He has received honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, [2] the Turing Award, [11] the ...

  6. Jack Kilby - Wikipedia

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    Jack St. Clair Kilby (8 November 1923 - 20 June 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. [1]: 22 He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on 10 December 2000.

  7. John Francis Mitchell - Wikipedia

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    President & COO. Vice chairman. John Francis Mitchell (January 1, 1928 – June 9, 2009) was an American electronics engineer and president and chief operating officer of Motorola. [3] [4] Mitchell led the pioneering development and implementation of Motorola's mobile phone technology producing the first portable transistorized pager and cell ...

  8. Henry T. Sampson - Wikipedia

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    Creating the gamma-electric cell. Henry Thomas Sampson Jr. (April 22, 1934 – June 4, 2015) was an American engineer, inventor and film historian [1] who created the gamma-electric cell in 1972 — a device with the main goal of generating auxiliary power from the shielding of a nuclear reactor. He wrote wrote Blacks in Black and White: A ...

  9. Carroll Shelby - Wikipedia

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    Carroll Hall Shelby (January 11, 1923 – May 10, 2012) was an American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur.. Best known as a designer for his involvement with the AC Cobra and Mustang for Ford Motor Company, he also developed the Ford GT40 with racing legend Ken Miles, the car that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966, 1967, 1968, and 1969.