M. Robert Aaron

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M. Robert Aaron (August 21, 1922 – June 16, 2007) was an American electrical engineer who specialized in telecommunications. He was born in Philadelphia and served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II. He earned a B.S. in 1949 and an M.S. in 1951 in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1951 he joined Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he helped design networks for transmission systems, including TAT-1, the first repeatered transatlantic telephone cable, and contributed to the development of the T-carrier system (T1). He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1979 and was a Fellow of IEEE and the AAAS. He was a co-recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 1978. Aaron died in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2007.