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Claude Shannon

Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q7626301&amp;oldid=2491596345" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Stuart Ballantine Medal · dated 1955
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q724029&amp;oldid=2505078028" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Employer: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q49108&amp;oldid=2564983405" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Massachusetts Institute of Technology · from 1957 · to 2001
Education: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q230492&amp;oldid=2560894223" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">University of Michigan · from 1932 · to 1936
Award received: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q6234290&amp;oldid=2559286635" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">John Fritz Medal · dated 1983
Notable work: <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q4003572&amp;oldid=2393416396" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits

Wikidata describes Claude Shannon as American mathematician and information theorist (1916–2001).

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