Name: Andrew H. Bobeck

Born: October 1, 1926, in Tower Hill, Pennsylvania, USA

  • American electrical engineer and former Bell Labs researcher.
  • Known for inventing bubble memory in the late 1960s.
  • Helped design communication and pulse transformers and one of the first solid-state digital computers.
  • Invented twistor memory in the late 1950s.

Honors and awards

  • IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award (1987).
  • IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1975).
  • Awarded Franklin Institute’s Stuart Ballantine Medal (1973).
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering.
  • IEEE Fellow.