Awards & Winners

Claude Shannon

Date of Birth 30-April-1916
Place of Birth Petoskey
(Emmet County, Michigan, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Claude E. Shannon
Profession Mathematician, Scientist, Engineer, Electrical engineer, Computer Scientist
Claude Elwood Shannon was an American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory". Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with a landmark paper that he published in 1948. However, he is also credited with founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he wrote his thesis demonstrating that electrical applications of boolean algebra could construct and resolve any logical, numerical relationship. Shannon contributed to the field of cryptanalysis for national defense during World War II, including his basic work on codebreaking and secure telecommunications.

Awards by Claude Shannon

Check all the awards nominated and won by Claude Shannon.

1966


National Medal of Science for Engineering
(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.)
IEEE Medal of Honor
(for his development of a mathematical theory of communication which unified and significantly advanced the state of the art)