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75th anniversary: William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor, for which...

History · Anniversaries · Sat, July 4, 2026

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1951: William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor, for which he, John Bardeen, and Walter Houser Brattain later won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

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