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Shannon, Claude Elwood

1916-2001

MIT Class of 1940


Research Assistant in Electrical Engineering 1936-1938; Research Assistant in Mathematics 1938-1940; Professor of Communications Science 1957-1958; Donner Professor of Science 1958-1979; Professor Emeritus 1979-2001.

MIT Museum Biographical file contents:Images; Institute Archives Manuscript - MC 386; biographical information; correspondence; news clippings; news releases

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Claude Shannon, 1957 [CES001]

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Claude Shannon, October 1968 [CES_05c]

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Claude Shannon, December 1983 [CES_14]

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August 1972 [CES_003a]

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[NWiener_008] L to R: Julius Stratton, Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon

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Harvey Award, 1972 [CES_010a]

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MIT Summer Session 1954, Mathematical Problems of Communication Theory [NWiener_036]

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