Peter C. Schultz

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Peter C. Schultz, Ph.D. (born 3 December 1942) is co-inventor of the fiber optics now used worldwide for telecommunications.

He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1993, and in 2000 received the National Medal of Technology from President Bill Clinton.

He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001. [ [http://www.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members+By+UNID/7F9EE314E8AD2D1985256FFC004A4D8A?opendocument Dr. Peter C. Schultz ] ]

Schultz is a retired business executive and makes his home in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands and also in Essex, New York.

He has a son Peter David Schultz who is a business executive in Athens, Georgia

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