Martin Cooper
There are a lot of famous engineers in the wild world: and they created many thing help human in various life requirements. So, Martin Cooper is one from those engineers and here some information according to Wikipedia website and some another websites:
Cooper was born in Chicago Illinois on December 26, 1928. His parents, Mary and Arthur Cooper, emigrated from Russia in the early 1900’s. He is considered the father of the cell phone (as distinct from the car phone). Cooper is the CEO and founder of ArrayComm, a company that works on researching smart antenna technology and improving wireless networks, and was the Corporate Director of Research and Development for Motorola. earned a degree in electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1950 and received his master's degree from the same institution in 1957. After four years in the navy serving on destroyers and a submarine, he worked for a year at a telecommunications company. Hired by Motorola in 1954, he worked on developing portable products, including the first portable handhold police radios, made for the Chicago police department in 1967. He then led Motorola's cellular research.
Cooper is considered the inventor of the first portable handset and the first person to make a call on a portable cell phone on April 3, 1973, to the bewilderment of passers-by in a road of New York. That first call, placed to his rival Joel Engel, Bell Labs' head of research, caused a fundamental technology and communications market shift toward the person and away from the place. It was the incarnation of his vision for personal wireless communications, distinct from cellular car phones. Cooper later revealed that watching Captain Kirk talking in his communicator on the tv-show Star Trek inspired him to research the mobile phone.
Cooper gave his name to Cooper's Law, the observation that the number of radio frequency conversations which can be conducted in a given area has doubled every 30 months since Marconi's spark gap transmitter. In 2003, Cooper received the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for his technological innovations in the communication field. Cooper is also a member of Mensa.
