Bernard M. Oliver
Bernard M. Oliver (born May 27, 1916 in Soquel , California, † November 23, 1995 in Los Altos Hills ) was an American scientist.
He studied electrical engineering at Stanford and Caltech, where he received his PhD in 1940. acquired.
From 1940 to 1952 he worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories on the development of microwave receivers for radar and television transmission. During World War II he developed with Claude Shannon and John R. Pierce , the pulse-code modulation .
From 1952 to 1981 he was director of research at the Hewlett Packard laboratory, where the HP-35 was developed under his direction .
He led the SETI project and was the spiritual father of Project Cyclops .
Oliver was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973, was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1986 and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2004 . The asteroid (2177) Oliver is named after him.
literature
- David W. Swift: Seti Pioneers - Scientists Talk about Their Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson 1993, ISBN 0-8165-1119-5 . Bernard M. Oliver, pp. 86-115.
- BM Oliver: Proximity of galactic civilizations. , Icarus, Volume 25, Issue 2, June 1975, pp. 360-367, doi : 10.1016 / 0019-1035 (75) 90031-7
Web links
- Bernard M. Oliver Is Dead at 79; Led Hewlett-Packard Research , Lawrence M. Fisher, New York Times, November 28, 1995
- Bernard M. Oliver ( 1916-1995 ) , seti-inst.edu
- BM Oliver , NASA Technical Reports Server (accessed October 12, 2010)
- B. Oliver , Nasa images (accessed October 12, 2010)
- Obituary: Bernard M. Oliver, 1916-1995
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. H. Paul Shuch: In Memoriam - Barney Oliver , The SETI League, Inc, accessed September 5, 2013
- ↑ Hall of Fame inventor profile Bernard Oliver ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , invent.org, accessed February 11, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oliver, Bernard M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Soquel , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1995 |
| Place of death | Los Altos Hills |