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April 8th Meeting
Dr. Michael Riordan, Stanford University and UC Santa Cruz
"History of the invention of the Transistor"

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Upcoming IEEE SCV EDS Evening Meeting:

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 IEEE SCV EDS Meeting:

"History of the invention of the Transistor"

Speaker: Dr. Michael Riordan, Stanford University and UC Santa Cruz
Subject: "History of the invention of the Transistor"
Location: National Semiconductor, Building E1, Conference Center,
2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95051.
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Time: 6:00 PM - Pizza , 6:15 PM - Lecture
Speaker Contact: Prasad Jayasimha

Abstract:

In 1947 the transistor was invented at Bell Telephone Laboratories; for this breakthrough, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley were awarded the 1956 Nobel prize in physics. In fact, there were actually three distinctly different versions of the transistor involved — the original “field-effect” idea, Bardeen and Brattain’s “point-contact” transistor, and the “junction transistor” that Shockley conceived in January 1948. This talk will recount the sequence of these events in detail, paying particular attention to the interactions of these three physicists and how their ideas and experiments led collectively to the first solid-state amplifiers.

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Biography:

Michael Riordan is a Lecturer in Stanford University’s History and Philosophy of Science Program and Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

He is the author of The Hunting of the Quark (Simon & Schuster, 1987) and coauthor (with Lillian Hoddeson) of Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age (W.W. Norton, 1997), which was awarded the 1999 Sally Hacker Prize of the Society for the History of Technology.

The American Institute of Physics recently awarded Riordan the prestigious Andrew Gemant Award for his efforts in communicating physics and its relationship to the wider culture.

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