Jesse Eugene Russell: Digital Cellphone
Immediately after graduating from Tennessee State University, James Eugene Russell (1948-present) went to work at Bell Labs. He rose through the ranks to become head of a team that was investigating ways of making the nascent mobile phone a practical and possible to use. His team made the first phone call over a digital cellular network in America. After that, he turned his focus on 4G innovation. He holds more than 100 patents for digital cellular technology. He was inducted into the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and received the U.S. Medal of Technology for his work.
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