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15 Semiconductor Milestones That Created the Modern World
John Blyler Jul 21, 2020

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First Transistor
Image Source: Replica First Transistor, Federal employee - Public Domain

In 1947, Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., demonstrated a germanium (Ge) point-contact transistor. The three individuals credited with the invention of the transistor were John Bardeen and Walter Brattain while working under William Shockley. They shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their achievement. (Image Source: Replica First Transistor, Federal employee - Public Domain)

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