Category:Claude Shannon

**Claude Shannon**
	American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001)
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Name in native language	Claude Elwood Shannon;
Date of birth	30 April 1916; Petoskey
Date of death	24 February 2001; Medford
Manner of death	natural causes;
Cause of death	Alzheimer's disease;
Place of burial	Mount Auburn Cemetery (Begonia path-10722-Space 2, 42°22′5.639″N 71°8′53.552″W);
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Residence	Gaylord;
Educated at	University of Michigan (electrical engineering, mathematics, 1932–1936); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (electrical engineering, 1936–1940); Gaylord High School (–1932);
Doctoral advisor	Frank Lauren Hitchcock; Vannevar Bush;
Doctoral student	Ivan Sutherland (1963); William Daniel Hillis (1981); Heinrich Arnold Ernst (1962); William Robert Sutherland (1966);
Occupation	mathematician; cryptographer; computer scientist; inventor; university teacher; engineer; geneticist;
Employer	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1957–2020); Bell Labs (1941–1958); Institute for Advanced Study (1940–1941);
Member of	American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1957–); Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1975–); German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1970–); American Philosophical Society (1983–); National Academy of Sciences (1956–); Royal Society (1991);
Field of work	probability theory; electrical engineering; information theory; cybernetics; cryptography;
Spouse	Betty Shannon (1949–); Norma Barzman (1939–1941);
Notable work	A Mathematical Theory of Communication; A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits; Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem; Shannon's source coding theorem; Noisy-channel coding theorem; Shannon–Hartley theorem; Shannon's expansion; Q1615706; Shannon capacity of a graph; information entropy; Shannon index; Shannon multigraph; Shannon number; Shannon switching game; Shannon–Fano–Elias coding; Shannon–Weaver model; Whittaker–Shannon interpolation formula; Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems;
Award received	Stuart Ballantine Medal (1955); John Fritz Medal (1983); Harold Pender Award (1978); Harvey Prize (1972); IEEE Medal of Honor (1966); National Medal of Science (1966); Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1963); National Inventors Hall of Fame (2004); Claude E. Shannon Award (1972); IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1949); Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (1985); Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1991); Marconi Prize (2000); Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award (1973);
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	Q92760; ISNI: 0000000114426158; VIAF ID: 41924253; GND ID: 119110792; Library of Congress authority ID: n92078142; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 123963452; IdRef ID: 079695612; NDL Authority ID: 00456225; Libraries Australia ID: 35492578; NL CR AUT ID: xx0005672; National Library of Israel ID (old): 000230711; National Library of Spain ID: XX1035107; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 068627858; NORAF ID: 90156152; NUKAT ID: n96638600; NLP ID (old): a0000002698868; National Library of Korea ID: KAC201613514; PLWABN ID: 9810697939305606; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007298568205171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA01117965; Open Library ID: OL302440A; Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 42920
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