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February 24, 2001 (84 years old)
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Taurus
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Claude E. Shannon
Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory". Shannon is noted for having founded information theory with a landmark paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", which he published in 1948. He is also well known for founding digital circuit design theory in 1937, when—as a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—he wrote his thesis demonstrating that electrical applications of Boolean algebra could construct any logical numerical relationship. Shannon contributed to the field of cryptanalysis for national defense during World War II, including his fundamental work on codebreaking and secure telecommunications.
BornApril 30, 1916, Petoskey, Michigan, U.S.
DiedFebruary 24, 2001, Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.
CitizenshipUSA
FieldsMathematics and electronic engineering
InstitutionsBell Labs, MIT, Institute for Advanced Study
Alma materUniversity of Michigan (A.B, B.S.E.E.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S, Ph.D.)
ThesesA Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits (1937), An Algebra for Theoretical Genetics (1940)
Doctoral studentsDanny Hillis, Ivan Sutherland, Bert Sutherland
Notable awardsStuart Ballantine Medal (1955), IEEE Medal of Honor (1966), National Medal of Science (1966), Harvey Prize (1972), Claude E. Shannon Award (1972), Harold Pender Award (1978), John Fritz Medal (1983), Kyoto Prize (1985), Marconi Society Lifetime Achievement Award (2000), National Inventors Hall of Fame (2004)
SpouseNorma Levor (1940-41), Betty Shannon (1949)

About Claude E. Shannon

Inventor Claude E. Shannon was born on April 30, 1916 in Petoskey, Michigan, United States (He dies at the age of 84, on February 24, 2001).

His groundbreaking information theory brought together previously disparate modes of communication such as the telegraph, telephone, and broadcast media. During World War II, he also contributed to the development of the field of cryptanalysis while working for national defense.

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Claude E. Shannon before becoming famous

Claude E. Shannon was born in the Zodiac sign Taurus (The Bull), and 1916 is also the year of Dragon (龍) in the Chinese Zodiac.

He wrote his master's thesis at M.I.T. when he was 22 years old, demonstrating how to apply 19th century mathematics to modern-day electronic switches.

Achievement of Claude E. Shannon

He was one of the first scientists to quantify information using binary digits, now known as bits, as a unit of measurement.

Claude E. Shannon's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He was born in Petoskey, Michigan, to a judge father and a teacher mother.

Claude E. Shannon Collabed with

He admired Inventor Thomas Edison as a child and later realized they were distant cousins: both were offspring of a colonial leader.

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