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Alexander Graham Bell

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q678263&amp;oldid=2550171198" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Edison Medal · dated 1914
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q13443401&amp;oldid=2533446323" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">invention of telephone
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q131626&amp;oldid=2556687824" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Smithsonian Institution
Public office: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q121594&amp;oldid=2561064827" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">professor
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q160302&amp;oldid=2564550912" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University of Edinburgh
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q1332315&amp;oldid=2489591487" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Elliott Cresson Medal · dated 1912

Wikidata describes Alexander Graham Bell as Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922).

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