Bell Labs
Bell Labs is an American industrial research and development (R&D) company, currently operating as a subsidiary of Finnish technology company Nokia. With a long history, Bell Labs is credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others, throughout the 20th century. Eleven Nobel Prizes and five Turing Awards have been awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories.
| Type | Subsidiary of Nokia
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| Founded | 1925 (as Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.)
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| Headquarters | Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S.
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| Parent | AT&T (1925–96)
Western Electric (1925–83) Lucent (1996–2006) Alcatel-Lucent (2006–16) Nokia (2016–present) |
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