Invention of the transistor

Invention of the transistor

In 1947, at Bell Labs, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley developed the point-contact transistor, a solid-state alternative to vacuum tubes. They were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research into semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.

 

Invention of the transistor






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