Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2025).
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Martin Cooper
Martin Cooper is an American engineer. He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field.
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business · American engineer (born 1928) · inventor · entrepreneur · electrical engineer · scientist · also Martin Cooper, Martin Cooper (inventor), Cooper
Born 26 December 1928 · Q319383
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2025· 1 entry
2015· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award (2015).
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded Marconi Prize (2013).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of Hasselt University (2013).
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Awarded Charles Stark Draper Prize (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Washington Award (2012).
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2010· 1 entry
Cooper was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for leadership in the creation and deployment of the cellular portable hand-held telephone
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2009).
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1992· 1 entry
Cooper co-founded Arraycomm, a developer of software for mobile antenna technologies
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1986· 2 entries
Cooper co-founded Cellular Payphone Inc
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As a home base for their developmental and support activities for the new companies, Subscriber Computing Inc
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1978· 1 entry
Published “Measuring the efficiency of decision making units” in European Journal of Operational Research — cited 21,841 times.
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1973· 4 entries
Cooper and Mitchell demonstrated two working phones to the media and to passers-by prior to walking into a scheduled press conference at the New York City Hilton in midtown Manhattan
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Cooper placed the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone while working at Motorola, from a Manhattan sidewalk to his counterpart at competitor Bell Labs
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And led the 10-year process of bringing it to market
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And led the team that redeveloped it and brought it to market in 1983
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1972· 1 entry
“s competitor, Bell Labs, saw car phones as the future. And he worried that car phones would become the standard for mobile communication. You see; he saw things differently. COOPER: The cellphone ought to be the extension of a person, and it ought to be with the person all the time. KELLY: So in 1972, he set out to create a mobile phone that could fit in your pocket. By the next year, his team had the first working cellphone system. FLORIDO: It was a feat of engineering, even if it couldn”
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1957· 1 entry
Earned his master's degree from IIT in electrical engineering and in 2004 received an honorary doctorate degree from IIT
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1950· 1 entry
And served as a submarine officer during the Korean War
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1947· 1 entry
But their first systems were limited to car phones which required roughly 30 pounds (12 kg) of equipment in the trunk
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1928· 1 entry
Born 1928-12-26.
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