Bernard M. Oliver

Bernard M. Oliver (* 1916 in Soquel, California, † November 23, 1995 in Los Altos Hills ) was an American scientist.

He studied electrical engineering at Stanford and Caltech, where he completed his PhD in 1940. acquired.

From 1940 to 1952 he worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories, in the development of microwave receivers for radar and television transmission. During the Second World War he developed with Claude Shannon and John R. Pierce pulse - code modulation.

From 1952 to 1981 was research director of the Hewlett Packard Laboratories, where developed under his leadership the HP -35.

He led the SETI project and was the spiritual father of the Project Cyclops.

In 1986, the National Medal of Science awarded him in 2004 and he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. After him the asteroid ( 2177 ) Oliver is named.