Andrew H. Bobeck is a noted Bell Labs researcher best known for his invention of bubble memory.
Background
Bobeck was born in Tower Hill, Pennsylvania, received his Bachelor of Surgery (1948) and Master of Surgery (1949) degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, and in 1949 joined Bell Laboratories where he helped design communication and pulse transformers, and then one of the first solid-state digital computers.
Career
Starting in 1956 he devoted his efforts to the development of magnetic logic and memory devices. He invented the twistor memory in the late 1950s, and in the late 1960s bubble memory based on magnetic domains in orthoferrites and garnets. In 1989 he retired from American Telephone & Telegraph Company"s Bell laboratories
Membership
Bobeck holds more than 120 patents, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow.