W. Rae Young, Date of Birth, Date of Death

W. Rae Young

American inventor

Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1915

Date of Death: 07-Mar-2008

Profession: inventor

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

William Rae Young, Jr.
(October 30, 1915 – March 7, 2008) was one of the Bell Labs engineers that invented the cell phone. The history of cellular phone technology began in December 1947 with a Bell Labs internal report in which Rae Young suggested the hexagonal cell concept for a cellular mobile telephone system.