How Europe missed the transistor.

This paper relates how the invention of the transistor occurred twice and independently of each other. In late 1948, shortly after Bell Telephone Labs announced the invention of the transistor, surprising reports began coming in from Europe about how two physicists from the German radar program, cla...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 42, 11 (2005).
Main Author: Riordan, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
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