Robert Price (7 July 1929 – 3 December 2008) was an American electrical engineer, known best for his research in spread spectrum and radar technology.
[1] While working in the MIT Lincoln Laboratories, he was the co-creator of the Rake receiver, together with Paul Green.
"[2] They also supervised its deployment in a first-ever spread-spectrum system, the Lincoln F9C (1950).
Price and Green also attempted to bounce radar waves off the planet Venus (1958).
In 1965 he left the Lincoln Laboratory to join the Sperry Research Center in Sudbury, Massachusetts.