Claude Elwood Shannon (1916 - 2001)

Born 30 Apr 1916 in Petoskey, Michigan, United States

Ancestors

Died 24 Feb 2001 in Medford, Massachusetts, United States

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Claude Shannon was awarded the National Medal of Science.

Biography

Notable awards

Stuart 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)

National Inventors Hall of Fame (2004)

His father, Claude, Sr. (1862–1934), a descendant of early settlers of New Jersey, was a self-made businessman, and for a while, a Judge of Probate. Shannon's mother was Mabel Wolf Shannon (1890–1945)

Sources

• "United States Census, 1930", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQ1B-1J4 : accessed 30 April 2016), Claude E Shannon in entry for Claude E Shannon, 1930.

Further Reading

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon

• http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/claude-shannon-tinkerer-prankster-and-father-of-information-theory

• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/29/claude-shannon-the-juggling-father-of-the-information-age-who-co/

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