Ralph Bown (1891 to 1971) was an American communications engineer and research director at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Born in Fairport, New York, he earned his engineering degrees and a doctorate at Cornell University, where he also taught physics, and served as a Signal Corps captain in the First World War. He joined the research department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1919 and moved with it to Bell Laboratories in 1934. His work covered radio broadcasting and ship-to-shore and overseas telephony and produced many patents. As research director he led the 1948 press conference announcing the transistor, and he retired in 1956 as a vice president. He won the Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize in 1926, presided over the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1927 and received its Medal of Honor in 1949.
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Ralph Bown (1891 – July 1971) was a noted American radio pioneer.
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Ralph Bown was born in Fairport, New York in 1891.
In Field: Electrical Engineering, Biography, Bell Laboratories career
Much of Dr. Bown's work was concerned with various aspects of radio broadcasting and ship-to-shore and overseas telephony.
Associated With: Transistor, Biography, 1948
Dr. Bown led the press conference that announced the invention of the transistor
In Group: Telecommunications and Radio Engineers, Biography
1971/07/20 Associated organizations Bell Labs Fields of study Communications Awards IRE Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize, IRE Medal of Honor President of IRE 1927 Ralph Bown, IRE President, 1927,
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