

Nine Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories. Researchers working at Bell Laboratories are 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.

With headquarters located in Murray Hill, New Jersey, the company operates several laboratories in the United States and around the world. Is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by Finnish company Nokia. Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984),
