Joseph Henry Condon

Joseph Henry 'Joe' Condon (born February 15, 1935 January 2, 2012) was an American computer scientist, engineer and physicist, who spent most of his career at Bell Labs. The son of Edward Condon (a distinguished American nuclear physicist, pioneer in quantum mechanics and a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project) and Emilie Honzik Condon, he was named after the 19th-century American physicist Joseph Henry.

Joseph Henry Condon
Born(1935-02-15)February 15, 1935
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
DiedJanuary 2, 2012(2012-01-02) (aged 76)
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materJohns Hopkins University (Physics, 1958
Northwestern University (Ph.D. Physics, 1963
Known formagnetic domains
digital telephone switching
Belle (chess machine)
Unix
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science, Engineering, Physics
InstitutionsBell Labs
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