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To: long-gone who wrote (58286)	9/18/2000 4:41:04 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116764

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 lucent.com lucent.com