Innovations that change the game

Innovations that change the game

Nokia Bell Labs

A global collective of the world's brightest minds, working to create the network of the future.

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Marcus Weldon, President of Bell Labs and Nokia CTO

We innovate by drawing from the global community of brilliant minds.

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Innovation Stories

Read the stories behind extraordinary contributions to science and tech.

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Awards

Our researchers have earned countless awards including Nobel Prizes and National Medals of Science.

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Years of innovation
100
Global research centers
17
Nobel Prize Awards
8
Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prize is among the world's most coveted awards in intellectual achievement. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded Nobel Prizes in Physics since 1901.
2014

Eric Betzig

Eric Betzig was awarded 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “For the Development of Super-Resolved Fluorescence Microscopy” which is capable of measuring images of molecules from within living cells.
2018

Arthur Ashkin

For the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems.
2009

Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith

Invention of the charge-coupled device (CCD), for electronic memory, which made the Charge Coupled Device (CCD) image sensor possible.
1998

Horst Störmer, Daniel Tsui, and Robert Laughlin

Discovery and explanation of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations (the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect.)
1997

Steven Chu

Development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. (Prize shared with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips.)
1978

Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson

Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation that in turn provided clear substantiation of the "big bang" theory of how the universe began.

1977

Philip W. Anderson

Fundamental theoretical insights into the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems". (Prize shared with Sir Nevill Francis Mott and John Hasbrouck van Vleck.)
1956

John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley

Research on semiconductors that led to the invention of the transistor in 1947.
1937

Clinton J. Davisson

Discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals and demonstrated the wave nature of matter. (Prize shared with George Paget Thomson.)

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Our History
Achievements

Bell Labs Timeline

Explore Bell Labs' 100 year history through this interactive timeline. Learn about the researchers and discoveries that changed our world.

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Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon Web Exhibit

Sift through over 100 archival documents, photographs, and publications that trace Shannon's career from 23 year-old Bell Labs intern to father of the digital age.

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Achievements

Future Impossible: A Bell Labs Series

This collection of short films highlights the brilliant minds who created the invisible nervous system of our society, a fantastic intelligent network undergirding every aspect of modern life.

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