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Nobel Prize for Transistor Physics

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1956Date range
2Named people
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Chronological records

1956

John BardeenDecember 1956

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for semiconductor research and the transistor effect.

Walter Houser BrattainDecember 1956

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for semiconductor research and discovery of transistor action.

Names involved

John BardeenWalter Houser Brattain

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