Crawford Hill
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Crawford Hill is located in Holmdel Township, New Jersey. It is Monmouth County's highest point, standing at least 380 feet (116 m) above sea level. The top portion of the hill is owned by Lucent Technologies, and formerly by Bell Laboratories.
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson of Bell Labs used the Horn Antenna on Crawford Hill to take measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation. They earned the Nobel Prize in Physics for these efforts that supported the Big Bang theory. For more information, see Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation.
More recently, award winning Bell Laboratories researchers working at Crawford Hill include Herwig Kogelnick and Gerard Foschini.
[Herwig Kogelnick] won the 2001 Marconi International Fellowship Award for his work in the development of fiber optic technology.
[Gerard J. Foschini] was the 2002 receipient of the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award for his pioneering inventions having to do with the capacity of communications systems with multiple antennas.
External links
- [Herwig Kogelnick IEEE Award Web Site]
- [Gerard J. Foschini on the Bell Labs web site]
- [Wikipedia article]
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