
Claude Elwood Shannon
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Background
- Born in
- Petoskey
- Educated at
- Gaylord High SchoolMassachusetts Institute of Technology
- Awards
- 🏆 National Inventors Hall of Fame🏆 Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship🏆 Harvey Prize🏆 Noble Prize🏆 John Fritz Medal
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Frank Lauren Hitchcock🎓 Vannevar Bush
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Ivan Sutherland📖 William Daniel Hillis
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Timeline
1916
Born
Birth2001
Died
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