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John Robinson Pierce Books in Order (11 Books)

John Robinson Pierce was a visionary electrical engineer and acoustics expert who made significant contributions to the field of communications technology. He was born on March 27, 1910, in Des Moines, Iowa, and grew up in California. Pierce graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1933 with a degree in aeronautics and electronics and received his Ph.D. from Caltech in 1936. He worked at Bell Labs from the mid-1950s to 1971, where he was a major force behind Echo I, the world's first communications satellite. Pierce is most renowned for being the father of communications satellites, namely, Echo and Telstar. He was also an active stimulator of innovative research in his division at Bell Labs, leading to a host of discoveries and innovations that created today's digital era. Pierce considered the transistor, which revolutionized everyday life, as his greatest achievement, and he even suggested the name for it in 1949.
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Scientific American Library Series Series

  • The Science of Musical Sound

    The Science of Musical Sound

    John Robinson Pierce

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    Publication Date: 1983-06-01
    ISBN-10: 0716760053 | ISBN-13: 9780716760054
  • Signals: The Science of Telecommunications

    Signals: The Science of Telecommunications

    John Robinson Pierce

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    Publication Date: 1990-01-01
    ISBN-10: 0716750260 | ISBN-13: 9780716750260

Non Series

  • Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction

    Caught in the Organ Draft: Biology in Science Fiction

    John Robinson Pierce

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    Publication Date: 1983-01-01
    ISBN-10: 0374312281 | ISBN-13: 9780374312282
  • Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets

    Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets

    John Robinson Pierce

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    Publication Date: 2005-03-29
    ISBN-10: 0471472611 | ISBN-13: 9780471472612
  • Waves and the Ear

    Waves and the Ear

    John Robinson Pierce

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    Publication Date: 1980-02-01
    ISBN-10: 0385094450 | ISBN-13: 9780385094450
  • Bell Labs Memoirs: Voices of Innovation

    Bell Labs Memoirs: Voices of Innovation

    John Robinson Pierce

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    ISBN-10: 1619159929 | ISBN-13: 9781619159921
  • Waves and Messages

    Waves and Messages

    John Robinson Pierce

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    ISBN-10: 0385091303 | ISBN-13: 9780385091305
  • Electrons and Waves

    Electrons and Waves

    John Robinson Pierce

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    Publication Date: 1964-01-01
    ISBN-10: 0385046472 | ISBN-13: 9780385046473
  • Almost All About Waves

    Almost All About Waves

    John Robinson Pierce

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    Publication Date: 2015-04-06
    ISBN-10: 0486453022 | ISBN-13: 9780486453026
  • An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise

    An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise

    John Robinson Pierce

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    Publication Date: 1961-11-01
    ISBN-10: 0486240614 | ISBN-13: 9780486240619
  • IF Worlds of Science Fiction, 1970 February

    IF Worlds of Science Fiction, 1970 February

    John Robinson Pierce

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    Publication Date: 1970-02-01
    ISBN-10: 1415670021 | ISBN-13: 9781415670026

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