1939 Noble Prize awarded to Institute member [Claude E. Shannon]

The Alfred Noble prize for 1939 has been awarded to C.E. Shannon (A'39) assistant in mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, for his paper "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits." The paper, an abstract of a thesis for master's degree, prepared while the author was a research assistant at MIT and a student member of the Institute, was presented at the AIEE summer convention, Washington, DC, USA, June 20-24, 1938, and published in the 1938 TRANSACTIONS, pages 713-23. A biographical sketch of Mr. Shannon appears in the "Personal Items" section of this issue, page 48. Formal presentation of the award will be made at the AIEE winter convention to be held in New York, NY, January 22-26.