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|name              = Claude Shannon
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|birth_date        = {{BirthDeathAge|B|1916|4|30|2001|2|24|}}
|birth_place       = [[Petoskey, Michigan]] 
|death_date        = {{BirthDeathAge||1916|4|30|2001|2|24|}}
|death_place       = [[Medford, Massachusetts]]
|residence         = [[United States]]
|citizenship       =
|nationality       = American
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|fields            = [[Mathematics]] and [[electronic engineering]]
|workplaces        = [[Bell Laboratories]]<br>[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]<br>[[Institute for Advanced Study]]
|alma_mater        = [[University of Michigan]]<br>[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]
|doctoral_advisor  = [[Frank Lauren Hitchcock]]
|academic_advisors =
|doctoral_students =[[Danny Hillis]]<br> [[Ivan Sutherland]]<br>[[Bert Sutherland]]<br>Heinrich Arnold Ernst
|notable_students  =
|known_for         =
[[Information theory]]<br>
[[Shannon–Fano coding]]<br>
[[Shannon–Hartley law]]<br>
[[Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem]]<br>
[[Noisy channel coding theorem]]<br>
[[Shannon switching game]]<br>
[[Shannon number]]<br>
[[Shannon index]]<br>
[[Shannon's source coding theorem]]<br>
[[Shannon's expansion]]<br>
[[Shannon–Weaver model|Shannon-Weaver model of communication]]<br>
[[Whittaker–Shannon interpolation formula]]
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|awards            = [[IEEE Medal of Honor]] (1966)<br> [[National Medal of Science]] (1966)<br> [[Harvey Prize]] (1972)<br> [[Kyoto Prize]] (1985)<br> [[National Inventors Hall of Fame]] (2004)
 
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'''Claude Elwood Shannon''' (April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001) was an American [[mathematician]], electronic engineer, and [[cryptography|cryptographer]]. He is known as the father of [[information theory]]. Shannon founded the information theory with one landmark paper published in 1948. 


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