Editing Paul Baran (section)

{{Short description|American-Jewish engineer}}
{{for|the economist with same name|Paul A. Baran}}
{{Use American English|date = February 2020}}
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| name              = Paul Baran
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| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1926|04|29}}
| birth_place       = [[Grodno]], [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]]<br>(now [[Belarus]])
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|2011|03|26|1926|04|29}}
| death_place       = [[Palo Alto, California]], U.S.
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| citizenship       = [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]], [[United States]]
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| workplaces        = [[RAND Corporation]]
| alma_mater        = [[Drexel University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br>[[University of California, Los Angeles]] ([[Master of Science|MS]])
| known_for         = [[Packet switching]]
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| awards            = [[IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal]] <small>(1990)</small> <br> [[Computer History Museum]] Fellow <small>(2005)</small><br> [[Marconi Prize]] {{small|(1991)}}<br>[[National Medal of Technology and Innovation]] <small>(2007)</small> <br> [[National Inventors Hall of Fame]]
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| spouse            = {{marriage|Evelyn Murphy Baran|1955}}
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'''Paul Baran''' (born '''Pesach Baran''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|æ|r|ən}}; April 29, 1926 – March 26, 2011) was a Polish-American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of [[computer network]]s. He was one of the two independent inventors of [[packet switching]], which is today the dominant basis for data communications in computer networks worldwide, and went on to start several companies and develop other technologies that are an essential part of modern [[Data communication|digital communication]].