Andrew Viterbi
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Andrew Viterbi / Andrea Viterbi (M / Italy, 1935), Holocaust survivor
- <Refugees> <United States>
Biography
Andrea Giacomo Viterbi was born in Bergamo, Italy, to an Italian-Jewish family. In 1939, after the Racial Laws, the family fled to the United States.
Viterbi became an American electrical engineer and businessman who co-founded Qualcomm Inc. and invented the Viterbi algorithm.