9. Tom Wilk, "Solid State Miracle," New Jersey Monthly, 22(12), 35-40 (Dec 97).In this year of the golden anniversary of the transistor, the magazine devoted to the state in which it was developed tells the story of its development. It is well known that John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley, all then scientists at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, received the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in developing the transistor, but this article relates that they did not all work together. Although Shockley had been put in charge of a newly formed research group to find alternatives to the vacuum tube, it was initially Bardeen and Brattain, working together, who made the first transistor by accident, with Shockley later devising the "far more efficient junction transistor."
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