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To: TigerPaw who wrote (27157)	1/27/2026 4:22:13 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) of 27167

Shockly led the team at AT&T that invented the transistor which was not a planer device at that time. It looked more like a rock with needles pressed against it. Shockley commercialized it at his lab on San Antonio Road (near where I live... like blocks away) which led to planar structures where multiple semiconducting devices were placed on the same piece of silicon. The Shockley transistor, also known as the junction transistor, was a major advancement in semiconductor technology developed by William Shockley in 1948. It followed the earlier point-contact transistor and laid the foundation for modern electronics Historical Significance Nobel Prize: Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on semiconductors and the transistor effect. Silicon Valley Roots: Shockley’s efforts to commercialize his transistor led to the founding of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View, California, which catalyzed the birth of Silicon Valley. More copilot.microsoft.com You have to dig but I think he is being written out of history for some of his views on eugenics. I believe he was a Stanford Professor too. I actually worked under and partied with Roland Haitz who Shockley brought over from Germany to build LEDs. Roland left Shockley (maybe at Stanford?) to commercialize LEDs at HP for the early HP watches and desktop computers. en.wikipedia.org

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