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John R. Pierce

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Electrical Engineering

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#39

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John R. Pierce

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PhD Physics California Institute of Technology

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According to Wikipedia, John Robinson Pierce , was an American engineer and author. He did extensive work concerning radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction. Additionally to his professional career he wrote science fiction for many years using the names John Pierce, John R. Pierce, and J. J. Coupling. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he earned his PhD from Caltech, and died in Sunnyvale, California, from complications of Parkinson's Disease.

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Scientific foundations of vacuum technique (1949) (1599)
Theory and Design of Electron Beams (1954) (730)
Traveling-Wave Tubes (1947) (702)
An introduction to information theory: symbols, signals & noise (1980) (327)
Language and Machines: Computers in Translation and Linguistics (1966) (280)
Coupling of Modes of Propagation (1954) (271)
The Philosophy of PCM (1948) (269)
Rectilinear Electron Flow in Beams (1940) (236)
Optical Channels: Practical Limits with Photon Counting (1978) (235)
The science of musical sound (1983) (195)
Limiting Stable Current in Electron Beams in the Presence of Ions (1944) (193)
Theory of the Beam-Type Traveling-Wave Tube (1947) (182)
The cochlear compromise. (1976) (168)
Symposium on Information Theory in Biology (1959) (148)
Network for block switching of data (1972) (140)
Current directions in computer music research (1989) (140)
Reading rates and the information rate of a human channel (1957) (120)
Symbols, signals, and noise (1961) (118)
Possible Fluctuations in Electron Streams Due to Ions (1948) (117)
A Theory of Noise for Electron Multipliers (1938) (113)
Symbols, Signals, and Noise: The Nature and Process of Communication. (1961) (103)
The capacity of the photon counting channel (1981) (88)
The early days of information theory (1973) (73)
Satellite Communication. (1961) (69)
A new type of high-frequency amplifier (1949) (68)
The Proceedings of the IRE (1954) (65)
Physical Sources of Noise (1956) (59)
Reflex Oscillators (1945) (54)
How Far Can Data Loops Go? (1972) (49)
Traveling Wave Implementation of a Lossless Mode-coupling Filter and the Wave Digital Hammer (1994) (48)
Harmony and nonharmonic partials (1980) (47)
Theoretical and experimental explorations of the Bohlen–Pierce scale (1988) (45)
The Kinetocardiogram: II. The Normal Configuration and Amplitude (1953) (44)
Almost All About Waves (1976) (44)
Mit Radiation Laboratory Series (1948) (42)
Instability of hollow beams (1956) (41)
The wave picture of microwave tubes (1954) (40)
The Future of Scientific Journals (1967) (40)
A passive nonlinear digital filter design which facilitates physics-based sound synthesis of highly nonlinear musical instruments (1995) (40)
MODES IN SEQUENCES OF LENSES. (1961) (39)
Waves in electron streams and circuits (1951) (39)
Ultimate performance of M -ary transmissions on fading channels (1966) (38)
Limiting Current Densities in Electron Beams (1939) (37)
Coupling of Modes in Helixes (1954) (34)
Orbital Radio Relays (1955) (33)
Introduction to Communication Science and Systems (1980) (30)
Spectra and Efficiency of Binary Codes Without DC (1972) (30)
The Nature of Musical Sound (1999) (28)
Synchronizing digital networks (1969) (28)
A note on the transmission line equation in terms of impedance (1943) (27)
Minimum Noise Figure of Traveling‐Wave Tubes with Uniform Helices (1954) (26)
Power Flow in Electron Beam Devices (1955) (25)
A Theorem Concerning Noise in Electron Streams (1954) (24)
Thermionic Valves. Their Theory and Design (1954) (21)
Approximate Error Probabilities for Optimal Diversity Combining (1963) (21)
Increasing Space‐Charge Waves (1949) (21)
Attaining Consonance in Arbitrary Scales (1966) (21)
Propagation in linear arrays of parallel wires (1955) (19)
A gun for starting electrons straight in a magnetic field (1951) (18)
Waves and the ear (1960) (18)
Interaction of Moving Charges with Wave Circuits (1955) (17)
``Brillouin Flow'' with Thermal Velocities (1953) (17)
Man's World of Sound (1959) (17)
Dotlble-Stream Amplifiers (1949) (16)
THE FUEL CONSUMPTION OF AUTOMOBILES (1975) (16)
The effect of surface and recording technique on the direct ballistocardiogram. (1953) (15)
Information technology and civilization (1984) (15)
Periodicity and pitch perception. (1991) (14)
Equation for traveling-wave tubes (1950) (14)
Comparison of Three-Phase Modulation with Two-Phase and Four-Phase Modulation (1980) (14)
Nonsynclronous Time Division with Holding and with Random Sampling (1952) (13)
The naming of the transistor (1998) (13)
Regular Articles Use of the Principles of Conservation of Energy and Momentum in Connection with the Operation of Wave-Type Parametric Amplifiers (1959) (13)
Uncertainty concerning the direct use of time information in hearing: place clues in white-spectra stimuli. (1977) (13)
Operation of Electrostatic Photo‐Multipliers (1941) (13)
Note on Stability of Electron Flow in the Presence of Positive Ions (1950) (13)
Circuits for Traveling-Wave Tubes (1949) (12)
Microwave Transmission Design Data and Microwave Transmission Circuits (1948) (12)
Information rate of a coaxial cable with various modulation systems (1966) (12)
Signals: The Science of Telecommunications (1990) (12)
Momentum and Energy of Waves (1961) (12)
Error Probabilities for a Certain Spread Channel (1964) (11)
Exploring Music: The Science and Technology of Tones and Tunes (1992) (11)
Spatially Alternating Magnetic Fields for Focusing Low‐Voltage Electron Beams (1953) (11)
Transoceanic communication by means of satellites (1959) (11)
On AX and ABX Limens (1958) (11)
Current Directions in Computer Music (1990) (11)
Four new scales based on nonsuccessive‐integer‐ratio chords (1984) (10)
Relationship of the physiologic third heart sound to the jugular-venous pulse. (1954) (10)
An experiment in addressed block data transmission around a loop (1971) (10)
When is research the answer? Knowledge can be power only when there are able people to use it. (1968) (10)
Computer Study of Violin Tones (1965) (10)
A New Method of Calculating Microwave Noise in Electron Streams (1952) (10)
Optical Channels: Practical Limits with (1978) (9)
The beginnings of satellite communications (1968) (9)
After-Acceleration and Deflection (1941) (9)
Noise in resistances and electron streams (1948) (9)
The computer as a musical instrument (1959) (9)
Freedom in research. (1959) (9)
The Bohlen-Pierce scale (1989) (8)
Innovation in Technology (1958) (8)
A Note on Filter-Type Traveling-Wave Amplifiers (1949) (8)
Some Recent Advances in Microwave Tubes (1954) (8)
Electrons, waves, and messages (1956) (8)
Effect of Passive Modes in Traveling-Wave Tubes (1948) (8)
Men, machines, and languages (1968) (8)
Sources of Noise (1980) (8)
Paralleled-Resonator Filters (1949) (7)
A Proposed Wattmeter Using Multielectrode Tubes (1936) (7)
The Transmission of Computer Data (1966) (7)
Some practical aspects of digital transmission (1968) (7)
Detection of gratings and small features in speckle imagery. (1981) (7)
Theoretical Limitation to Transconductance in Certain Types of Vacuum Tubes (1943) (6)
An interesting wave amplifier (1960) (6)
Modulation and Noise (1980) (6)
Advances in Electronics, Volume I (1949) (6)
History of the Microwave-Tube Art (1962) (6)
What Are We Doing to Engineering? (1965) (6)
GROWING ELECTRIC SPACE-CHARGE WAVES (1956) (5)
Signals: The telephone and beyond (1981) (5)
Great Themes of Science Fiction: A Study in Imagination and Evolution (1987) (5)
Relativity and Space Travel (1959) (5)
Transverse fields in traveling-wave tubes (1948) (5)
Looking back-Claude Elwood Shannon (1993) (4)
Time relationships of ballistocardiographic movements. (1953) (4)
New means of communication (1966) (4)
Recollections with John Robinson Pierce (1991) (4)
Discrimination of form in images corrupted by speckle. (1981) (4)
Space-charge wave excitation in solid-cylindrical Brillouin beams (1959) (4)
Critical points in the theory of electron beam devices (1961) (4)
Electron Beams in Strong Magnetic Fields (1945) (4)
Computer Music, Coming and Going (1996) (3)
The Research State :a history of science in New Jersey (1964) (3)
Science, art, and communication (1969) (3)
On a Recent Paper by Jaffé (1944) (3)
Electronics: past, present, and future. (1977) (3)
Rate, Place, and Pitch with Tonebursts (1990) (3)
Proposal for an Explanation of Limens of Loudness (1958) (3)
A time to take stock. (1971) (3)
Physical limitations in electron ballistics (1945) (3)
Instabilities and growing waves in electron beam devices (1961) (3)
SECTION OF MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING*: TUBES FOR MILLIMETER WAVES† (1951) (3)
Study of Articulator Dynamics (1962) (2)
Calculations concerning the noisiness of a drifting stream of electrons (1958) (2)
Disturbances in a multi-velocity plasma (1959) (2)
The Science Book of Space Travel (1956) (2)
A Note on Plasma Oscillation (1949) (2)
The general sources of noise in vacuum tubes (1954) (2)
Pulse Shape, Filtering, and Arraying (1980) (2)
A Survey of Information Theory (1967) (2)
Interview with John Robinson Pierce (1982) (1)
Satellites and Spaceflight (1958) (1)
Edward e. David, jr., president-elect. (1977) (1)
Possibility of theoretical prediction of fading circuit error clustering (Corresp.) (1965) (1)
Early Work on Explanation of Limens of Loudness (1958) (1)
A Figure of Merit for Electron-Concentrating Systems (1945) (1)
Transoceanic communication by means of satellites (classic paper) (1997) (1)
Book Reviews: Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949 (1950) (1)
Electrons and Waves (1965) (1)
Satellite Science and Technology. (1963) (1)
Antennas and Transmission (1980) (1)
Space‐charge wave (1949) (1)
New Musical Resources--Yesterday and Today (1969) (1)
The Need for High School Physics in an Industrial Community: Proceedings of the Pittsburgh Conf. (U. of Pittsburgh, Jan. 1956) (1957) (1)
Lightwaves—the new look in communication (1976) (1)
Science and literature. (1951) (1)
Hazards of Communication Satellites (1961) (1)
Effect of pixel dimensions on SAR picture quality (1978) (1)
Music and Physics (1966) (1)
Science and Literature1 (1951) (1)
The 1978 nobel prize in physics. (1978) (0)
Communication--Outlook for the Future (1966) (0)
Shannon, Claude E. (2003) (0)
Man's Role in Space. (1987) (0)
A study of stretched harmonies (1979) (0)
Challenges in Communications: Audio 1988 (1969) (0)
Meditations on Physics Today (1952) (0)
Average digit-error probability after decoding random codes (Corresp.) (1967) (0)
A Nonreciprocal-Loss Traveling-Wave-Tube Circuit* (1960) (0)
Consonance judgments of chords derived from the Pierce 3579b scale (1985) (0)
Colloquium on Solid State Devices (1961) (0)
Passive nonlinear filter for digital musical sound synthesizer and method (1998) (0)
Nonacoustical Means of Communication (1961) (0)
The Link between Continuous and Pulsed Signals—Sampling and Digitization (1980) (0)
On Bell: II. The system is sound (1979) (0)
Residue pitch and beats as heard in a musical context (1986) (0)
BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS: Quantum Electronics (1969) (0)
An Ink Recording Oscillograph for Steady State A.C. Phenomena in the Audio Range (1936) (0)
Phenomena, Atoms and Molecules: an attempt to interpret phenomena in terms of mechanisms or atomic interactions (1950) (0)
Explanation of Limens of Loudness (1957) (0)
Some Aspects of Data Transmission (1980) (0)
The Outlook for Commutation (1975) (0)
Personalized subscriptions. (1968) (0)
Talking by Satellite (1967) (0)
Discussion on "A Proposed Wattmeter Using Multielectrode Tubes" (John R. Pierce) (1937) (0)
Our ears do deceive us. (1970) (0)
Signals and Frequencies (1980) (0)
Information Theory (2010) (0)
Amplifier for short electrical waves using a multiple wave lengths long discharge space (1948) (0)
The paper dragon…a tale of the times (1963) (0)
Human Communication: A Unified View (1973) (0)
A statistical evaluation of data for the study of the influence of physical variables of a contact lens upon the centering of the lens on the cornea (1962) (0)
Machine translation. (1972) (0)
Autocorrelation and Stationarity (1980) (0)
The future of electrical communication (1968) (0)
Applying Information Theory—Coding and Randomization (1980) (0)
Letters to the Editor. (1965) (0)
Waves in electron clouds (1959) (0)
Five Against Seven-Random Canon (2011) (0)
Man's World of Sound: (1959) (0)
Electrons and waves : an introduction to the science of electronics and communication (1965) (0)
Fletcher and pitch (1995) (0)
Engineering and the Natural Environment, and discussions (1978) (0)
The Space Encyclopaedia (1958) (0)
Communication of tomorrow via satellites (1961) (0)
Frequency modulation with feedback receiver performance and modulation methods for satellite communication (1962) (0)
A multiplexed system using a fiber optic serial data bus (1979) (0)
Some white‐spectrum stimuli with distinct time structures (1975) (0)
Dissipation of Currents in Ionized Media (1959) (0)
Communications‐immaterial resources (2008) (0)
A. A. Penzias received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics. (1978) (0)
The Pierce 3579b scale (1985) (0)
The New Jersey Historical Series: Volumes VI-XXVI (1965) (0)
Gynecology for the general physician. (1959) (0)
Being practical about space. (1978) (0)
Introduction to current directions on computer music (1989) (0)
An Introduction to Information Theory (1980) (0)
Letter to the editor (1962) (0)
The naming of the transistor : Special issue on the fiftieth anniversary on the transistor (1998) (0)
Random Processes and Gaussian Signals and Noise (1980) (0)
21st-Century Musical Instruments: Hardware and Software@@@Current Directions in Computer-Music Research (1991) (0)
Random Pulses and the Gaussian Distribution (1980) (0)
Demand Charge for Air‐Conditioning Use in Arkansas (1953) (0)
Information technology and civilization : draft of a report to the Club of Rome, for discussion at the October 25, 1982 workshop in Tokyo, not for quotation (1982) (0)
Go or Tell: The Future of Communication and Transportation (1975) (0)
Caltech seminar series on energy consumption in private transportation (1974) (0)
Visual science : proceedings of the 1968 international symposium (1972) (0)
URSI National Committee Report, XIV General Assembly, Tokyo, September 1963: Commission 7. Radio Electronics (10 sections) (1964) (0)
Variations in Timbre and Attack (2011) (0)
On Bell: II. The system is sound: `It ain't broke, so don't fix it,¿ reflects the sentiments of an eminent Bell Labs emeritus executive (1979) (0)
Concerning the Division of Electron and Ion Optics of the American Physical Society (1944) (0)
Eight-Tone Canon (2011) (0)
Sources, Source Encoding, and Source Characterization (1980) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS: Electrons and Waves (1967) (0)
Limits to Error Performance: Information Theory (1980) (0)

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