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Who Is Claude Shannon?
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Claude Elwood Shannon was born on April 30,1916 in Petoskey, to Claude Elwood and Mabel Wolf Shannon, His parents move to Gaylord, Michigan and spent the rest of his life there. His father Claude Elwood was a judge at Gaylord, Michigan. His mother was a high school principle. Even though his father interest wasn’t for science, his grandfather was the one that was really into science. Shannon’s grandpa was an innovator and agriculturist. On 27, 1949 March Shannon married Mary Elizabeth Moore and together they have three children; Robert James, Andrew Moore, and Margarita Catherine.
In 1936, Shannon went to Michigan University, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree, later
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