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PeopleInstitutionsResources
Archival as SubjectPublished as AuthorAT & T Bell Laboratories
Dates
1984 – 1996
Authorized Form of Name
AT & T Bell Laboratories
Additional Forms of Names
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Institutional History
Abstract
In 1984, due to a divestiture agreement with the United States Government, the AT & T Corporation assumed business control of Bell Telephone Laboratories and changed the name. It remained until 1996 when it divested most of Bell Laboratories into Lucent Technologies, Inc.
Past Presidents
1984-91, Ian Ross.
1991-95, John Mayo.
1995-96, Daniel Stanzione.
Important Dates
1984AT & T Technologies assumed business control of Bell Telephone Laboratories and changed its name, Murray Hill (N.J.).
1984 – 1986George E. Smith was on staff.
1984 – 1986Francis DiSalvo was on staff.
1984 – 1986Donald Eigler was on staff.
1984 – 1987Douglas Osheroff was on staff.
1984 – 1987Gerald Dolan was on staff.
1984 – 1987Steven Chu was on staff.
1984 – 1987Arthur Gossard was on staff.
1984 – 1989Charles Shank was on staff.
1984 – 1989Albert Narath was Vice President.
1984 – 1989John Hopfield was on staff.
1984 – 1990Robert Dynes was on staff.
1984 – 1990John Weeks was on staff.
1984 – 1990Philip Bucksbaum was on staff.
1984 – 1990David Chemla was on staff.
1984 – 1991Shirley Ann Jackson was on staff.
1984 – 1992Paul Fleury was on staff.
1984 – 1992Arthur Ashkin was on staff.
1984 – 1992David G. Thomas held various positions including Executive Director, Transmission Systems.
1984 – 1992David G. Thomas was on staff.
1984 – 1992Arthur Ashkin held various positions including Head, Department of Laser Science.
1984 – 1993Solomon Buchsbaum was on staff.
1984 – 1993C. Kumar N. Patel was on staff.
1984 – 1994Neville Smith was on staff.
1984 – 1994Joel Appelbaum was on staff.
1984 – 1994Robert W. Wilson was on staff.
1984 – 1995Pierre Hohenberg was on staff.
1984 – 1995Julia Phillips was on staff.
1984 – 1996Arno Penzias was on staff.
1984 – 1996Donald Hamann was on staff.
1984 – 1996James Eisenstein was on staff.
1984 – 1996Frank Stillinger was on staff.
1984 – 1996Horst Stormer was on staff.
1984 – 1996James Phillips was on staff.
1984 – 1996Aron Pinczuk was on staff.
1984 – 1996Theodore Fulton was on staff.
1984 – 1996Gabriel Aeppli was on staff.
1984 – 1996David Bishop was on staff.
1984 – 1996Cherry Ann Murray was on staff.
1984 – 1996Robert Cava was on staff.
1984 – 1996Yves Chabal was on staff.
1984 – 1996David Tank was on staff.
1984 – 1996Krishnan Raghavachari was on staff.
1985 – 1987Frances Hellman was on staff.
1985 – 1987F. Duncan M. Haldane was on staff.
1985 – 1995Susan Coppersmith was on staff.
1986 – 1988A. Paul Alivisatos was on staff.
1986 – 1996Andrew Millis was on staff.
1987 – 1996William Brinkman was on staff.
1988 – 1996Eric Isaacs was on staff.
1989 – 1996Robert Willett was on staff.
1996Lucent Technologies, Inc. was created when AT & T divested most of Bell Laboratories and its equipment manufacturing business, Murray Hill (N.J.).
Places
Headquarters
Subjects
Physical laboratories -- Administration.
Relationships
People
Employees & Officers
Member and Distinguished Member, Technical staff.
Member, Technical staff.
Member, Technical staff.
Head, Department of Laser Science and Member, Technical staff.
Member and Distinguished Member, Technical staff and Department Head, Microstructural Physics Research.
Brinkman, William F. (William Frank), 1938-
Executive Director, Physics Research Division and Vice President, Physical Sciences Research.
Senior Vice President, Technological Systems.
Member, Technical staff, Physics Research Division.
Member and Distinguished Member, Technical staff.
Member to Distinguished Member, Technical staff.
Head, Quantum Physics and Electronics Research Department.
Member Technical Staff and Head, Quantum Electronics Research Division.
Postdoctoral Member, Member, and Distinguished Member, Technical staff.
Head, Solid State and Physics of Materials Research Department.
Member, Technical staff.
Director, Chemical Physics Research.
Member, Technical staff.
Eisenstein, James P. (James Philip)
Postdoctoral Member and Member, Technical staff.
Director, Physical Research Laboratory.
Member to Distinguished Member, Technical staff.
Member, Technical staff.
Research Physicist, Surface Physics.
Member, Technical staff.
Director, Surface Physics Research Department.
Member, Technical staff.
Member, Technical staff; Head, Theoretical Physics Department; and Distinguished Member, Technical staff.
Member, Technical staff.
Postdoctoral Member and Member, Technical staff.
Member, Technical staff.
Consultant.
Mayo, John S.
President.
Member, Technical staff.
Member, Technical staff, Low Energy and Scattering Research; Distinguished Member, Technical staff, Low Temperature Physics Research; Head, Solid State and Low Temperature Research Department; Head, Condensed Matter Physics Research Department; and Head, Semiconductor Physics Research Department.
Vice President.
Head, Solid State and Low Temperature Research Department.
Executive Director, Physics and Academic Affairs Division and Executive Director, Research Materials Science Engineering and Academic Affairs Division.
Vice President, Research and Vice President and Chief Scientist.
Member, Technical staff.
Member, Technical staff; Program Manager, Consortium for Superconducting Electronics; and Supervisor, Thin Films Research Group, Research Division.
Member, Technical staff.
Member and Distinguished Member, Technical staff.
Ross, Ian M. (Ian Munro)
President.
Director, Electronics Research Laboratory and Member, Technical staff.
Head, Device Concepts Group.
Member, Technical staff.
Stanzione, Daniel C.
President.
Distinguished Member, Technical staff.
Head, Department of Electronic and Optical Properties of Solids and Director, Physical Research Laboratory.
Member and Distinguished Member, Technical staff and Director, Biological Computation Research Department.
Thomas, D. G. (David Gilbert), 1928-
Executive Director, Transmission Systems.
Member, Technical Staff, Mathematical Physics Research Department and Distinguished Member, Technical Staff, Mathematical Physics Research Department.
Postdoctoral Member and Member, Technical staff.
Head, Radio Physics Research Department.
Institutions
Institutional Hierarchy
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Created in 1996 when AT & T divested most of Bell Laboratories and its equipment manufacturing business.
Changed in 1984 when AT & T Technologies assumed the business of Western Electric and Bell Laboratories.
Resources
Archival Resources
Subject
Alcatel-Lucent Archives collection, 1860s-2008.
Archives
Alcatel-Lucent
101 Crawfords Corner Road, Room 11G-104, Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA
AT&T Archives and History Center records, 1869-present.
AT & T Archives and History Center
5 Reinman Road, Warren, NJ 07060, USA
Published Resources
Author
A history of engineering and science in the Bell system : transmission technology (1925-1975)