Martin Cooper
Early life:
Martin Cooper born December 26, 1928 in Chicago, USA. He is a pioneer and visionary in the wireless communications industry. Cooper graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in 1950. After graduating he enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve where he served as a submarine officer during the Korean War. In 1957 Cooper went on to earn his master's degree from IIT in electrical engineering.
Achievements:
Inventor of the mobile phone. While working at Motorola, Cooper came up with the idea of the first hand-held portable cellular phone. Martin Cooper was also the first person in the world to make a phone call on a mobile phone.
Cooper worked at Motorola for 29 years; building and managing both its paging and cellular businesses. He also led the creation of trunked mobile radio, oscillators, liquid crystal displays, piezo-electric components, Motorola A. M. stereo technology and various mobile and portable two-way radio product lines. Cooper became Vice-President and Corporate Director of Research and Development at Motorola.
Quotes:
The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.
When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away.
Martin Cooper born December 26, 1928 in Chicago, USA. He is a pioneer and visionary in the wireless communications industry. Cooper graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in 1950. After graduating he enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve where he served as a submarine officer during the Korean War. In 1957 Cooper went on to earn his master's degree from IIT in electrical engineering.
Achievements:
Inventor of the mobile phone. While working at Motorola, Cooper came up with the idea of the first hand-held portable cellular phone. Martin Cooper was also the first person in the world to make a phone call on a mobile phone.
Cooper worked at Motorola for 29 years; building and managing both its paging and cellular businesses. He also led the creation of trunked mobile radio, oscillators, liquid crystal displays, piezo-electric components, Motorola A. M. stereo technology and various mobile and portable two-way radio product lines. Cooper became Vice-President and Corporate Director of Research and Development at Motorola.
Quotes:
The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.
When you are doing one thing - talking on your phone, texting, whatever - you are automatically not doing something else. What is the greatest scarcity in the world today? It's not oil. It's time. Time is precious. Don't throw it away.