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Shannon, Claude Elwood, 1916-2001

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Personal name headingShannon, Claude Elwood, 1916-2001
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Variant(s)Shannon, C. E. (Claude Elwood), 1916-2001
Shannon, Claude E., 1916-2001
Birth date1916-04-30
Death date2001-02-24
Place of birthPetoskey (Mich.)
Place of deathMedford (Mass.)
Field of activityMathematics Electrical engineering Computer science Information theory
AffiliationUniversity of Michigan Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Profession or occupationMathematicians Electrical engineers Computer scientists College teachers
Found inHis Claude Elwood Shannon, c1992: CIP t.p. (Claude Elwood Shannon)
LC data base, 08/04/92 (hdg.: Shannon, Claude E., 1916- ; usage: Shannon, C.E.)
New York times, Feb. 27, 2001: obituaries (Dr. Claude Elwood Shannon; American mathematician and computer scientist; b. Apr. 30, 1916 in Petoskey, Mich.; d. Feb. 24, 2001 in Medford, Mass.)
Paul J. Nahin, The logician and the engineer, 2012: pages 28-39 (Claude Elwood Shannon, electrical engineer, born Apri. 30, 1916, Petoskey, Mich.; degrees from University of Michigan in mathematics and electrical engineering, 1936; Ph.D. in mathematics at Mass. Institute of Technology, 1940; worked at Bell Labs until 1958, when he obtained a joint appointment in mathematics and electrical engineering at MIT; died in Medford, Mass., on Feb. 24, 2001)
New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2018: page 36 (Claude Shannon, mathematician who invented information theory)
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