The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal is an award honoring ''"exceptional contributions to communications and networking sciences and engineering"'' in the field of
telecommunications
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. The medal is one of the highest honors awarded by the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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(IEEE) for achievements in telecommunication sciences and engineering.
It was instituted in 1976 by the directors of IEEE, commemorating the centennial of the invention of the telephone by
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell (, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Te ...
. The award is presented either to an individual, or to a team of two or three persons.
The institute's reasoning for the award was described thus:
Recipients of the award receive a gold medal, bronze replica, certificate, and an
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.
Recipients
As listed by the IEEE:
*1976 Amos E. Joel, Jr., William Keister, and
Raymond W. Ketchledge
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*1977
Eberhardt Rechtin
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Eberhardt Rechtin was born in East Orange, New Jersey on January 16 ...
David Slepian
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Stephen O. Rice Stephen Oswald Rice (November 29, 1907 – November 18, 1986) was a pioneer in the related fields of information theory, communications theory, and telecommunications.
Biography
Rice was born in Shedds, Oregon (later renamed Shedd).
He received a ...
*1984
Andrew J. Viterbi
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*1985
Charles K. Kao
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Richard H. Frenkiel
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Frenkiel earned a bachelor's degree in mechani ...
Paul Baran
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*1991
C. Chapin Cutler
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Donald C. Cox
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*1994
Hiroshi Inose
was a Japanese electrical engineer, known as the inventor of the Time-Slot Interchange system (TSI), which is basic to modern digital telephone switches. Inose was highly involved within his career. He held positions such as director general, ...
Tadahiro Sekimoto
was a Japanese electronics engineer, a recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor (2004), chairman of Japan's Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies (IISE), and former chairman of the Board of Councilors of the Japan Federation of Economi ...
*1997
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Tsuneo Nakahara
was a Japanese communications engineer, executive advisor to the CEO of Sumitomo Electric. He was one of the main researchers contributing to the development of optical fiber technology.
He earned his B.E. in 1953 and his Ph.D. in 1961, both i ...
*2003
Joachim Hagenauer Joachim Hagenauer (born 29 July 1941) is an information theorist and professor emeritus at Technical University of Munich. He pioneered the use of ''soft bits'' (see Soft output Viterbi algorithm), a coding theory technique that contributes to the h ...
John Wozencraft
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*2007
Norman Abramson
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Gerard J. Foschini
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*2009
Robert McEliece Robert J. McEliece (May 21, 1942 – May 8, 2019) was the Allen E. Puckett Professor and a professor of electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) best known for his work in error-correcting coding and information the ...
*2010
John Cioffi
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Leonard Kleinrock
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*2013
Andrew Chraplyvy
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Nambirajan Seshadri
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Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes
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IEEE Medal of Honor
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Alexander Graham Bell Medal
The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal is an award honoring ''"exceptional contributions to communications and networking sciences and engineering"'' in the field of telecommunications. The medal is one of the highest honors awarded by the Insti ...