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Martin Cooper

1928 - Today

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Martin Cooper (born December 26, 1928) is an American engineer. He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field. On April 3, 1973, Cooper placed the first public call from a handheld portable cell phone while working at Motorola, from a Manhattan sidewalk to his counterpart at competitor Bell Labs. Cooper reprised the first handheld cellular mobile phone (distinct from the car phone) in 1973 and led the team that redeveloped it and brought it to market in 1983. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Cooper is the 71st most popular businessperson (down from 58th in 2019), the 748th most popular biography from United States (down from 538th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Businessperson.

He is most famous for his invention of the first cell phone.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Martin Cooper ranks 71 out of 847. Before him are Soichiro Honda, Giovanni Agnelli, Otto Frank, Robert Bosch, Dietrich Mateschitz, and J. Paul Getty. After him are Jakob Fugger, Sergei Diaghilev, Rupert Murdoch, Henri Nestlé, Richard Branson, and N. R. Narayana Murthy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Martin Cooper ranks 39. Before him are Agnès Varda, Elie Wiesel, Martin Landau, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Maya Angelou, and Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov. After him are James Ivory, Hans Küng, Jean Kennedy Smith, George Peppard, Kim Yong-nam, and Alberto Korda.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Cooper ranks 748 out of 20,380. Before him are Alec Baldwin (1958), J. Paul Getty (1892), Kim Novak (1933), Glenn T. Seaborg (1912), James Earl Jones (1931), and John Cazale (1935). After him are Charles Goodyear (1800), Mike Pence (1959), William G. Morgan (1870), Bell hooks (1952), Kip Thorne (1940), and Marshall Warren Nirenberg (1927).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Martin Cooper ranks 31. Before him are Hugh Hefner (1926), Larry Ellison (1944), Donald Trump Jr. (1977), King C. Gillette (1855), Bill Hewlett (1913), and J. Paul Getty (1892). After him are Larry Fink (1952), Robert Kardashian (1944), David Koch (1940), Ray Kroc (1902), Andrew Tate (1986), and Stan Kroenke (1947).

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