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Dan Noble was born in Naugatuck, Connecticut, on October 4, 1901, and received a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1929. He remained at the University of Connecticut after receiving this degree and rose in rank to Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Electrical and Radio Engineering.
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As with every other system that he had built, this one worked extremely well, and he established a worldwide reputation as both a brilliant designer and a superb engineer. It was at this point that Paul Galvin, who had founded Motorola just ten years before, got to know Dan Noble and began to try to pry him loose from the university to come to work for him.
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By 1942 Paul Galvin had Dan Noble in his camp, and a great love and respect developed and existed between them until Galvin passed away in 1959. Those were years when Dan Noble established Motorola as the dominant force in mobile communications.
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226 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES four he still had the vigor and the ability to change his mind when he learned the facts. He was always full of vitality, always experimenting, always learning something new, and when he learned that his original conception had to be modified, changed, or even totally cast out, he was the first to admit it.
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