John Mitchell, Rudy Krolopp and Marty Cooper
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The Motorola team that invented the cell phone, including John Mitchell, former head of Moto’s communications division and the man who made the first cell phone call in 1973; Rudy Krolopp, then Moto’s industrial design director; Marty Cooper, who ran Moto’s R&D effort in wireless communications, and who is considered the “father of the cell phone.”