1950's Science and Technology | "Transistor Technology Evokes New Physics"

Lecture

By: William Shockley

Date: December 11, 1956

Source: Shockley, William. "Transistor Technology Evokes New Physics." Nobel lecture, December 11, 1956, 344–345. Available online at http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1956/shockley-lecture... ; website home page: http://www.nobel.se (accessed December 19, 2002).

About the Author: William Bradford Shockley (1910–1989) was born in London, England, and received a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University in 1936. That year he joined Bell Laboratories as a research physicist, where he invented the transistor in collaboration with John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain. All three shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956.

Introduction

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