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A review of the major achievements of Claude Elwood Shannon, a prominent US-th scientist, creator of information theory, the author of many scientific papers, including funda-tal in the transmission and reception of information, the communication system of the inventor, is-favor pulse code modulation. The information about the parents of Shannon, interest-WIDE facts of his life and work, including details of education, hobbies mathematics and artificial intelligence. Shannon described working contacts with its famous modern-nicknames N. Wiener, D. Neumann, H. Bode, A. Turing. R. Hartley, B. Oliver, D. Pearce, H. Nyquist, R. Hamming. Presents facts from Shannon's work in Bell Labs, its research and teaching work at MIT and the recognition of his services. We describe the design of several devices created by Shannon for research and as a result of his hobbies juggling and riding a unicycle.