John B. Johnson

John B. Johnson

John Bertrand "Bert" Johnson (October 2, 1887 – November 27, 1970) ( Johan Erik Bertrand) was a Swedish-born American electrical engineer and physicist. He first explained in detail a fundamental source of random interference with information traveling on wires.

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