Bell Labs Innovations

Dates

1996 – 2007

Authorized Form of Name

Additional Forms of Names

Lucent Technologies (Firm).. Bell Labs Innovations

Institutional History

Abstract

In 1996, AT & T spun off most of AT & T Bell Labs and its equipment manufactor business and created Lucent Technologies, Inc. As part of these changes, most development departments were combined into the business divisions of Lucent Technologies, but the research functions remained with Bell Laboratories, which became known as Bell Labs Innovations until it's merger with Alcatel in 2007.

Past Presidents

1996-99, Daniel Stanzione.

1999-2001, Arun Netravali.

2001-2005, Bill O'Shea.

2005-2007, Jeong Kim.

Important Dates

1996AT & T divested most of Bell Laboratories and its equipment manufacturing business creating Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill (N.J.).

1996 – 1997Horst Stormer was on staff.

1996 – 1998Arno Penzias was on staff.

1996 – 2001William Brinkman was on staff.

1996 – 2001Donald Hamann was on staff.

1996 – 2001David Tank was on staff.

1996 – 2001Frank Stillinger was on staff.

1996 – 2001James Phillips was on staff.

1996 – 2002Yves Chabal was on staff.

1996 – 2002Krishnan Raghavachari was on staff.

1996 – 2003Eric Isaacs was on staff.

1996 – 2004Cherry Ann Murray was on staff.

1996 – 2007Robert Willett was on staff.

1996 – 2007Aron Pinczuk was on staff.

1996 – 2007David Bishop was on staff.

2007A year after the merger of Lucent Technologies and Alcatel, Alcatel's Research and Innovations organization and Bell Labs Innovations were combined into a single organization (Alcatel-Lucent (Firm)), Murray Hill (N.J.).

Places

Headquarters

Murray Hill (N.J.)

Subjects

Physical laboratories -- Administration.

Physical laboratories.

Science and industry.

Relationships

People

Employees & Officers

Bishop, David John, 1951-

Distinguished Member, Technical Staff and Department Head, Micromechanics Research; and Fellow and Vice President, Nanotechnology Research.

Brinkman, William F. (William Frank), 1938-

Vice President, Physical Science Research and Vice President, Research.

Chabal, Yves Jean, 1952-

Member to Distinguished Member, Technical Staff.

Fulton, Theodore Alan

Consultant.

Hamann, Donald, 1939-

Director, Theoretical Physics Research Department and Director, Theoretical Materials Research Department.

Isaacs, Eric D.

Member, Technical staff; Director, Materials Physics Research Department; and Director, Semiconductor Physics Department.

Kim, Jeong H.

President.

Lax, Melvin J.

Consultant.

Murray, Cherry Ann

Head, Semiconductor Physics Research Department; Director, Physics Research; Vice President, Physical Sciences; and Senior Vice President, Physical Sciences and Wireless Research.

Netravali, Arun N.

President.

O'Shea, Bill

President.

Penzias, Arno A.

Vice President and Chief Scientist.

Phillips, J. C.

Member, Technical staff.

Pinczuk, Aron

Member, Technical Staff.

Raghavachari, Krishnan

Distinguished Member, Technical staff.