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Joel Engel

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Joel Engel · Technology & Engineering

What

Co-developed the cellular telephone network architecture.

When

1936, New York City, USA

Where

United States

Biography

Joel Engel is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Co-developed the cellular telephone network architecture.

How & why

Joel S. Engel, an electrical engineer at Bell Labs, co-developed with Richard Frenkiel the cellular network architecture that divides coverage into reusable cells, the concept behind all modern mobile phone systems. The two shared the U.S. National Medal of Technology in 1994. He was born into a Jewish family in New York.

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Co-developed the cellular telephone network architecture.

1936

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science