Inventors & Engineers · Digital
Shockley, Bardeen & Brattain: The Transistor
The 1947 point-contact transistor at Bell Labs, Shockley's junction transistor, the 1956 Nobel, and how Shockley's toxic management in Palo Alto spawned the 'traitorous eight' and Silicon Valley.
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Key idea
Prereqs: Electricity basics; Semiconductors. Next: Noyce & Moore; The Innovators. Sources: Michael Riordan & Lillian Hoddeson, *Crystal Fire* (1997); Jon Gertner, *The Idea Factory* (2012).Next: 1. The invention