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February 23, 1998

the Invention of the Transistor

Dr. Michael Riordan
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics

Darwin 103
3:00 PM

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.)