Richard Ralston Hough (/ˈhʌf/; December 13, 1917 – July 9, 1992) was a Bell Labs engineer and AT&T executive.
While at Princeton, he was on the school's swimming team and set several world records in that sport.
[1] In 1980 Hough received the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal for his role in the introduction of electronic telephone switching.
[2] He died in a crash in 1992, when the private plane he was piloting experienced engine failure near Concord, New Hampshire.
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