M. Robert Aaron (August 21, 1922 – June 16, 2007) was an American electrical engineer specializing in telecommunications.

Aaron was born in Philadelphia, served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II, received his bachelor's (1949) and master's degree (1951) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1951 joined Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. There he helped design networks for various transmission systems, including TAT-1, the first repeatered transatlantic telephone cable system. He was also a key contributor to design of T1, the initial T-carrier system.

M. Robert Aaron

Aaron was a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1979), Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and American Association for the Advancement of Science, and co-recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1978).

M. Robert Aaron

He died in West Palm Beach, Florida in 2007.

M. Robert Aaron

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1922 births

2007 deaths

University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni

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Fellow Members of the IEEE

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American electrical engineers

Engineers from Pennsylvania

20th-century American engineers

United States Coast Guard personnel of World War II