Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1933, April 26 | Born, Munich, Germany |
| 1939 | Fled with family from Germany to England |
| 1940 | Immigrated to the United States with his family and settled in New York, N.Y. |
| 1946 | Became a naturalized citizen of the United States |
| 1954 | B.S., College of the City of New York, New York, N.Y. Married Anne Pearl Barras. Divorced 1996. |
| 1954-1956 | Radar officer, Army Signal Corps |
| 1956-1958 | Research assistant, Columbia Radiation Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1958 | M.A., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1961 | Started thirty-seven year career at Bell Laboratories and its successor Lucent Technologies |
| 1962 | Ph.D. in physics, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1964 | Discovered with Robert W. Wilson uniform microwave radiation emanating from all directions in the universe, documenting the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe |
| 1972-1976 | Director, Radio Research Laboratories, Bell Laboratories |
| 1978 | Awarded with Robert W. Wilson the Nobel Prize for Physics |
| 1981-1995 | Vice president for research, Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies |
| 1989 | Published Ideas and Information: Managing in a High-Tech World. New York: Norton |
| 1995 | Published Harmony: Business, Technology & Life after Paperwork. New York: HarperBusiness |
| 1995-1998 | Vice president and chief scientist, AT &T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories Innovations |
| 1996 | Married Sherry Levit |
| 1998- | Venture partner, New Enterprise Associates |