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Nyquist, Harry (1889–1976) A physicist and engineer at AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he did important work in areas such as thermal noise, telegraphy, facsimile systems, and television. Nyquist also did significant work that laid the foundations for information theory, as was subsequently developed by Claude Shannon. In 1928, Nyquist published a paper entitled Certain Topics in Telegraph Transmission Theory, in which he expressed what is now known as the Nyquist theorem. In telecommunications, the Nyquist theorem forms the basis for pulse code modulation (PCM), the fundamental method for converting analog voice to digital format. See also Nyquist theorem and PCM. |