Awards & Winners

John Robinson Pierce

Date of Birth 27-March-1910
Place of Birth Des Moines
(Polk County, United States of America, Iowa, Warren County, Area code 515)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as John R. Pierce, John Pierce
Profession Scientist, Writer, Electrical engineer, Engineer
John Robinson Pierce, was an American engineer and author. He worked extensively in the fields of radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he earned his PhD from Caltech, and died in Palo Alto, California from complications of Parkinson's Disease.

Awards by John Robinson Pierce

Check all the awards nominated and won by John Robinson Pierce.

1975


IEEE Medal of Honor
(for his pioneering concrete proposals and the realization of satellite communication experiments, and for contributions in theory and design of traveling wave tubes and in electron beam optics essential to this success.)

1963


National Medal of Science for Engineering
(For his outstanding contributions to communications theory, electron optics and travelling wave tubes, and for the analysis leading to world-wide radio communications using artificial earth satellites.)