Authorised form of name | Shannon; Claude Elwood (1916 - 2001) |
Dates | 1916 - 2001 |
Nationality | American |
Place of birth | Gaylord, Michigan, USA |
Date of birth | 30/04/1916 |
Date of death | 24/02/2001 |
Activity | Education: State school, Gaylord; University of Michigan (1936, BSc Electrical Engineering and Mathematics); MIT (1940, Masters) Career: Worked at MIT and Bell Telephone Laboratories on telephone systems and established the binary system; developed a digital encryption system, used by Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt; wrote the landmark paper 'A mathematical theory of communication' (published 1948); Visiting Professor, MIT (1956); Donner Professor of Science, MIT (1957-1978); suffered from Alzheimer's Disease
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Membership category | Foreign Member |
Date of election | 20/06/1991 |
Age at election | 75 |
Relationships | Grandson of an inventor; distant cousin of Thomas Edison; married (1939) Mary Elizabeth; one son, one daughter |
Source | Sources: Obituaries: Guardian (08 March 2001); Times, Daily Telegraph (12 March 2001); Nature vol 410 p 768 (12 April 2001) |
Code | NA5986 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1991/44 | Shannon, Claude Elwood: certificate of election to the Royal Society | 1987 |