Science on the 29th of December 1939 in history

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29 Dec 1939 Shockley semiconductor amplifier idea	science	Shockley semiconductor amplifier idea In 1939, William Shockley wrote in his laboratory notebook: “It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.&rdquo. He went on to develop the transistor, for which he shared (with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain) the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.	0

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