Courtesy of National Academy of Sciences, David, Edward E. et al., "John Robinson Pierce: 1910-2002," 2004
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This document is the National Academy of Sciences biography for John Robinson Pierce, an American engineer and author. Pierce was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and he worked extensively in the fields of radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics and science fiction.
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David, Edward E. et al., "John Robinson Pierce: 1910-2002," 2004. Courtesy of National Academy of Sciences