Nobel Prize - #OnThisDay in 1947 the first transistor, now an essential part of making smaller electronic devices such as computers and phones, was demonstrated at Bell Laboratories. The transistor is a
Nobel Prize - Remembering one of the co-inventors of the first transistor: Walter Brattain, who was born on this day in 1902. The transistor is a semiconductor with the purpose of amplifying
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Photo of (from left) John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain, the inventors of the transistor, 1948. This is one of a series of publicity photos produced by Bell Labs around the
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1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. Official Struck Copy. Gilt Bronze. 66 mm. 1,542.7 grains. Awarded to William Bradford Shockley, Jr. Edge ma... | Stacks Bowers
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