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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American computer scientist</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Charles P. Thacker</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Chuckthacker_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Chuckthacker_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Chuckthacker_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="289" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Chuckthacker_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Chuckthacker_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Chuckthacker_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Chuckthacker_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1770" data-file-height="2327" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Thacker in 2008</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Charles Patrick Thacker</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1943-02-26</span>)</span>February 26, 1943<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Pasadena,_California" title="Pasadena, California">Pasadena, California</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">June 12, 2017<span style="display:none">(2017-06-12)</span> (aged 74)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto</a>, California, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a> (B.S., 1967)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Alto (computer)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/IEEE_John_von_Neumann_Medal" title="IEEE John von Neumann Medal">IEEE John von Neumann Medal</a> <small>(2007)</small><br /><a href="/wiki/Turing_Award" title="Turing Award">Turing Award</a> <small>(2009)</small> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Computer_History_Museum" title="Computer History Museum">Computer History Museum</a> Fellow <small>(2007)</small><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Eckert%E2%80%93Mauchly_Award" title="Eckert–Mauchly Award">Eckert–Mauchly Award</a> <small>(2017)</small> <sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Computer_Science" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer Science">Computer Science</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Xerox" title="Xerox">Xerox</a>, <a href="/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation" title="Digital Equipment Corporation">DEC</a>, <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Research" title="Microsoft Research">Microsoft Research</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Charles Patrick "Chuck" Thacker</b> (February 26, 1943 – June 12, 2017) was an American pioneer computer designer.<sup id="cite_ref-AT_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AT-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He designed the <a href="/wiki/Xerox_Alto" title="Xerox Alto">Xerox Alto</a>, which is the first computer that used a <a href="/wiki/Computer_mouse" title="Computer mouse">mouse</a>-driven <a href="/wiki/Graphical_user_interface" title="Graphical user interface">graphical user interface</a> (GUI). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_P._Thacker&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Thacker was born in <a href="/wiki/Pasadena,_California" title="Pasadena, California">Pasadena, California</a>, on February 26, 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-chm_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chm-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father was Ralph Scott Thacker, born 1906, an electrical engineer (<a href="/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology" title="California Institute of Technology">Caltech</a> class of 1928<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) in the aeronautical industry.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His mother was the former (Mattie) Fern Cheek, born 1922 in <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>, a cashier and secretary, who soon raised their two sons on her own.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He received his B.S. in <a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">physics</a><sup id="cite_ref-IEEE_JVN_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IEEE_JVN-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a> in 1967. He then joined the university's "<a href="/wiki/Project_Genie" title="Project Genie">Project Genie</a>" in 1968, which developed the pioneering <a href="/wiki/Berkeley_Timesharing_System" title="Berkeley Timesharing System">Berkeley Timesharing System</a> on the <a href="/wiki/SDS_940" title="SDS 940">SDS 940</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Butler_Lampson" title="Butler Lampson">Butler Lampson</a>, Thacker, and others then left to form the Berkeley Computer Corporation, where Thacker designed the processor and memory system. While BCC was not commercially successful, this group became the core technologists in the Computer Systems Laboratory at <a href="/wiki/Xerox" title="Xerox">Xerox</a> Palo Alto Research Center (<a href="/wiki/PARC_(company)" title="PARC (company)">PARC</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-chm_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chm-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Thacker worked in the 1970s and 1980s at the PARC, where he served as project leader of the <a href="/wiki/Xerox_Alto" title="Xerox Alto">Xerox Alto</a> personal computer system,<sup id="cite_ref-altopc_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-altopc-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was co-inventor of the <a href="/wiki/Ethernet" title="Ethernet">Ethernet</a> <a href="/wiki/Local_area_network" title="Local area network">LAN</a>, and contributed to many other projects, including the first <a href="/wiki/Laser_printing" title="Laser printing">laser printer</a>. </p><p>In 1983, Thacker was a founder of the <a href="/wiki/DEC_Systems_Research_Center" title="DEC Systems Research Center">Systems Research Center</a> (SRC) of <a href="/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation" title="Digital Equipment Corporation">Digital Equipment Corporation</a> (DEC), and in 1997, he joined <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Research" title="Microsoft Research">Microsoft Research</a> to help establish <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Research_Cambridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft Research Cambridge">Microsoft Research Cambridge</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>. </p><p>After returning to the United States, Thacker designed the <a href="/wiki/Computer_hardware" title="Computer hardware">hardware</a> for Microsoft's <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Tablet_PC" title="Microsoft Tablet PC">Tablet PC</a>, based on his experience with the "interim <a href="/wiki/Dynabook" title="Dynabook">Dynabook</a>" at PARC, and later the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lectrice&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lectrice (page does not exist)">Lectrice</a>, a pen-based hand-held computer at DEC SRC. </p><p>From 2006–2010 Thacker was a research contributor to the Berkeley Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors (RAMP) based upon the Berkeley Emulation Engine FPGA platform, which sought to explore new processor designs through massive emulation. He advised and consulted on the follow-on BEE platforms, the BEE2 and BEE3, and in turn used the hardware for his own research explorations. </p><p>Because the impetus for the <a href="/wiki/RISC-V" title="RISC-V">RISC-V</a> development was the paucity of open-source processor designs for the RAMP project (both Asanovic and Patterson were PIs), it is fitting that Thacker played a role in this important future technology. </p><p>Thacker died of complications from <a href="/wiki/Esophageal_cancer" title="Esophageal cancer">esophageal cancer</a> on June 12, 2017, in <a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_California" title="Palo Alto, California">Palo Alto</a>, California, aged 74.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_P._Thacker&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1994, he was inducted as a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Association_for_Computing_Machinery" title="Association for Computing Machinery">Association for Computing Machinery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1996, he was named a Distinguished Alumnus in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2004, he won the <a href="/wiki/Charles_Stark_Draper_Prize" title="Charles Stark Draper Prize">Charles Stark Draper Prize</a> together with <a href="/wiki/Alan_Kay" title="Alan Kay">Alan C. Kay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Butler_Lampson" title="Butler Lampson">Butler W. Lampson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Taylor_(computer_scientist)" title="Robert Taylor (computer scientist)">Robert W. Taylor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2007, he won the <a href="/wiki/IEEE_John_von_Neumann_Medal" title="IEEE John von Neumann Medal">IEEE John von Neumann Medal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-IEEE_JVN_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IEEE_JVN-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2007, he was inducted as a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Computer_History_Museum" title="Computer History Museum">Computer History Museum</a> for "leading development of the Xerox PARC Alto, and for innovations in networked personal computer systems and laser printing technologies."<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2010, he was named by the <a href="/wiki/Association_for_Computing_Machinery" title="Association for Computing Machinery">Association for Computing Machinery</a> as the recipient of the 2009 <a href="/wiki/Turing_Award" title="Turing Award">Turing Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in recognition of his pioneering design and realization of the <a href="/wiki/Xerox_Alto" title="Xerox Alto">Alto</a>, the first modern personal computer, and in addition for his contributions to the <a href="/wiki/Ethernet" title="Ethernet">Ethernet</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Tablet_computer" title="Tablet computer">tablet computer</a>. </p><p>Thacker received an <a href="/wiki/Honorary_doctorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary doctorate">honorary doctorate</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Swiss</a> <a href="/wiki/ETH_Z%C3%BCrich" class="mw-redirect" title="ETH Zürich">Federal Institute of Technology</a><sup id="cite_ref-IEEE_JVN_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IEEE_JVN-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was a <a href="/wiki/Fellow#Industry_and_corporate" title="Fellow">Technical Fellow</a> at Microsoft.<sup id="cite_ref-IEEE_JVN_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IEEE_JVN-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_P._Thacker&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 9,</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=ACM+Turing+Award+Goes+to+Creator+of+First+Modern+Personal+Computer&rft.pub=ACM+%28the+Association+for+Computing+Machinery%29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acm.org%2Fpress-room%2Fnews-releases%2F2010%2Fturing-award-09&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACharles+P.+Thacker" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFClark2010" class="citation news cs1">Clark, Don (March 9, 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100313063210/http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/03/09/computing-prize-winner-did-not-rest-on-his-laurels/">"Computing Prize Winner Did Not Rest On His Laurels"</a>. The Wall Street Journal ("BLOGS"). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/03/09/computing-prize-winner-did-not-rest-on-his-laurels/">the original</a> on March 13, 2010<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 10,</span> 2010</span>. <q><span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>"This guy is a real genius," says <a href="/wiki/Alan_Kay" title="Alan Kay">Alan Kay</a>, a researcher who worked with Thacker at <a href="/wiki/PARC_(company)" title="PARC (company)">PARC</a> and a fellow <a href="/wiki/Turing_Award" title="Turing Award">Turing Award</a> winner. "We don't like to sling that word around in our field, but he is one. He is magic."<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Computing+Prize+Winner+Did+Not+Rest+On+His+Laurels&rft.date=2010-03-09&rft.aulast=Clark&rft.aufirst=Don&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.wsj.com%2Fdigits%2F2010%2F03%2F09%2Fcomputing-prize-winner-did-not-rest-on-his-laurels%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACharles+P.+Thacker" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_P._Thacker&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHoffmann2010" class="citation journal cs1">Hoffmann, L. (2010). "Q&A: From Single Core to Multicore, Leah Hoffmann interviews Charles P. Thacker". <i>Communications of the ACM</i>. <b>53</b> (7): 112. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F1785414.1785444">10.1145/1785414.1785444</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:208938429">208938429</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Communications+of+the+ACM&rft.atitle=Q%26A%3A+From+Single+Core+to+Multicore%2C+Leah+Hoffmann+interviews+Charles+P.+Thacker&rft.volume=53&rft.issue=7&rft.pages=112&rft.date=2010&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1145%2F1785414.1785444&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A208938429%23id-name%3DS2CID&rft.aulast=Hoffmann&rft.aufirst=L.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACharles+P.+Thacker" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_P._Thacker&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.microsoft.com/about/technicalrecognition/Chuck-Thacker.aspx">Thacker biography</a>, <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.budiu.info/blog/thacker.html">An interview with Chuck Thacker</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130503040950/http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/bios/vonneumann_recipients.html#sect8">IEEE John von Neumann Medal Recipients</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.microsoft.com/2010/03/09/chuck-thacker-attains-computings-peak/">Chuck Thacker Attains Computing’s Peak</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20121210220508/http://blogs.technet.com/cdnitmanagers/archive/2010/03/25/legendary-pioneer-chuck-thacker-recent-turing-award-recipient-250k-prize-considered-nobel-prize-of-computing-from-microsoft-research-shares-his-iconic-legacy-current-and-future-innovative-research.aspx">Podcast interview with Chuck Thacker upon receipt of Turing Award by </a>, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Ibaraki" title="Stephen Ibaraki">Stephen Ibaraki</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline 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Heilmeier</a> / <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Helfrich" title="Wolfgang Helfrich">Wolfgang Helfrich</a> / <a href="/wiki/Martin_Schadt" title="Martin Schadt">Martin Schadt</a> / <a href="/wiki/T._Peter_Brody" title="T. Peter Brody">T. Peter Brody</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Haug" title="Thomas Haug">Thomas Haug</a> / <a href="/wiki/Martin_Cooper_(inventor)" title="Martin Cooper (inventor)">Martin Cooper</a> / <a href="/wiki/Yoshihisa_Okumura" title="Yoshihisa Okumura">Yoshihisa Okumura</a> / <a href="/wiki/Richard_H._Frenkiel" title="Richard H. Frenkiel">Richard H. Frenkiel</a> / <a href="/wiki/Joel_S._Engel" title="Joel S. Engel">Joel S. Engel</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_B._Goodenough" title="John B. Goodenough">John B. 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