Claude Elwood Shannon

Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001), an American electronic engineer and mathematician, is known as "the father of information theory". Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with one landmark paper published in 1948. But he is also credited with founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's student at MIT, he wrote a thesis demonstrating that elec... more

Date of birth:

  • Apr 30, 1916

Date of death:

  • Feb 24, 2001 (age 84 years)

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Also known as:

  • Claude Shannon,
  • Claude E. Shannon

Award Winner

Awards Won:

Year Award Notes/Description
  • 1966
  • For brilliant contributions to the mathematical theories of communications and information processing and for his early and continuing impact on the development of these disciplines.
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