Frank Gray

male
Frank Gray was a physicist and researcher at Bell Labs who made numerous innovations in television, both mechanical and electronic, and is...
Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie

male, 68 years old
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (born September 9, 1941) is an American computer scientist notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, and...
William Shockley

William Shockley

male, deceased (1989)
William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 - August 12, 1989) was a British-born American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and...
Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson

male, 66 years old
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4 1943), commonly referred to as Ken Thompson (or simply Ken in hacker circles), is an American pioneer of...
Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon

male, deceased (2001)
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001), an American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called "the father of...
John Bardeen

John Bardeen

male, deceased (1991)
John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to have won two Nobel prizes in physics: in 1956 for the...
Ronald Graham

Ronald Graham

male, 74 years old
Ronald Lewis Graham (born October 31, 1935) is a mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society with being "one of the principal...

Robert Morris

male
Robert "Bob" Morris is an American cryptographer. He was an employee of Bell Labs and later served as chief scientist of the National Security...

Billy Klüver

male, deceased (2004)
Billy Klüver Johan Wilhelm (Billy) Klüver was born in Monaco, November 13, 1927, and grew up in Sweden. He graduated from the Royal Institute of Te...
Brian Kernighan

Brian Kernighan

male, 67 years old
Brian Wilson Kernighan, (born 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken...