OK, for those who don't know.... Transistor was invented in
1947 at AT&T Bell Labs by these three guys, who received a
nobel prize for it later in 1956.
slac.stanford.edu
Physics 1956
The prize was awarded to:
Shockley, William, U.S.A.,
b. 1910, (in London, Great Britain), d. 1989,
Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments, Inc., Mountain View, CA,
and
Bardeen, John, U.S.A.,
b. 1908, d. 1991,
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL,
and
Brattain, Walter Houser, U.S.A.,
b. 1902, d. 1987,
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ,
Invention description
"for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect".
If you want, take a look at the photo of the first transistor & a description here
invent.org
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