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Article: Happy 50th. (Bell Laboratories scientists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, William Shockley discover transistor effect) (Technology Information)
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- December 1, 1997
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Fifty years ago this month, three scientists at Murray Hill, NJ-based Bell Laboratories uncovered the transistor effect, which allows changes to the conductivity of a material using an electric current. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley experimented with an amplifying device that involved using a semiconductor (a material such as germanium or silicon) with physical properties of conducting and insulating. A month late; Shockley unveiled the unction transistor. Later came the alloy transistor, then the MOS transistor, which served as the foundation for the integrated circuit and the birth of the electronics industry.
Since then, the transistor ...