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Pierce, John Robinson

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Pierce, John Robinson (1910-2002)

US electrical engineer. In the 1950s Pierce was one of the first to see the possibilities of satellite communication and played a role in the research that resulted in the launch of Echo (1960) and Telstar (1962).

He was born in Des Moines, Iowa. Pierce worked in the Bell Telephone Laboratories (1936-71), subsequently becoming professor at the California Institute of Technology.
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