#brattain

[lindahall]

The Transistor – Scientist of the Day

Seventy-five years ago, on December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain successfully tested the world’s first transistor in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

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[erebusmist]

Bardeen and Brattain, according to one biographer, “loved one another as much as two men can…It was like Bardeen was the brains of this joint and Brattain was the hands.”

Sam Kean, The Disappearing Spoon

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[antscrawlmydrunkenarms-blog]

I'm willing to wager the names John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain don't mean much to you. They should. They have had more influence on the world today than anyone else since the Second World War. They invented the transistor, probably the most important invention of the twentieth century, without which everything you know would be unimaginably different.

The transistor is the fundamental basis of all modern electronics. They are what make computers, mobile phones, the whole modern age possible: it’s hard to overstate how much the first-world way of life depends upon it. Today, advanced microprocessors contain about 3,000,000,000 of them. Back in 2002, 60 million were produced for every person alive in that year alone. So, next time you start playing go on the internet, writing an inane blog, texting somebody, taking a digital photograph, watching a DVD, remember that these three men created your world.