William Shockley was the visionary ... get credit for a single product built. Walter Brown debunks the myth created by the Bell Labs press photo: "Bardeen was not at all a laboratory experimentalist.

John Bardeen had met William Shockley when they were both in school ... Bardeen also knew another member of the group, Walter Brattain, from his grad school days. Bardeen was introduced to Walter ...

Consider this example: The first working transistor, built by Bell Labs John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley in 1947, measured roughly 1 centimeter across. Today, logic transistor ...

It is widely agreed, for instance, that William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the first transistor in 1947. Such inventions and discoveries were based on research conducted ...