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Martin Cooper
Sign in to saveAmerican engineer, father of mobile phone
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1928-12-26 ) December 26, 1928 (age 97) , Chicago , Illinois , U.S.
- Other name
- Marty Cooper
- Education
- Illinois Institute of Technology ( BS , MS )
- Occupations
- Inventor entrepreneur executive
- Known for
- Inventor of the first handheld cellular mobile phone
- Title
- Motorola , Founder & CEO of ArrayComm , Co-founder and chairman of Dyna LLC
- Spouse
- Arlene Harris ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1991 )
- Awards
- Marconi Prize (2013), ITU 150 Awards (2015)
- Website
- www .dynallc .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Home - Dyna LLC
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Martin
- Family name
- Cooper
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Spouse
- Arleny Harris
- Occupation
- electrical engineer
- Position held
- chief executive officer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- electrical engineering
- Conflict
- Korean War
- Official website
- www.dynallc.com
- Image
- 2007Computex e21Forum-MartinCooper.jpg
- Residence
- Del Mar
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- member of
- National Academy of Engineering
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- Martin Cooper
- social media followers
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Encyclopedic overview
Martin Cooper (born December 26, 1928) is an American engineer. He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field.
On April 3, 1973, Cooper placed the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone while working at Motorola, from a Manhattan sidewalk to his counterpart at competitor Bell Labs. Cooper reprised the first handheld cellular mobile phone (distinct from the car phone) in 1973 and led the team that redeveloped it and brought it to market in 1983. He is considered the "father of the (handheld) cell phone", and received the 2015 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award for this work.
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