E234: Martin "Marty" Cooper - The Father of the Cell Phone

Martin Cooper is an engineer, an entrepreneur, and a
futurist. Known as the “father of the cell phone,” he invented
the world’s first portable cell phone at Motorola and made the
first public call in 1973. Over thirty years at Motorola, Cooper
and his teams introduced the first nationwide mobile phones and
pagers, and numerous other products. He and his wife, Arlene
Harris founded over a half dozen companies.


He is chairman of Dyna LLC, serves on the FCC’s Technological
Advisory Council and is a member of the National Academy of
Engineers, the Marconi Society, and is a Prince of Asturias
Laureate. He has been widely published, and created the Law of
Spectrum Capacity, known as Cooper’s Law.

Cooper grew up in Chicago and attended the Illinois Institute of
Technology. 


 


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