Presenter Full Name
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Dr. Michael Riordan
Institution
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Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
Year & Semester
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1998 Spring
Presentation Date
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February 23, 1998
Dr. Michael Riordan of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics will describe how the transistor was born at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1947-48, recounting the contributions of John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley in achieving this stunning breakthrough. (Dr. Riordan will autograph Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age and The Shadows of Creation : Dark Matter and the Structure of the Universe afterward.)