These theories would help Bardeen later during the invention of the transistor. He finished his dissertation in 1935. Bardeen went on to Harvard where he was hired as a Junior Fellow with a salary ...

These theories would help Bardeen later during the invention of the transistor. He finished his dissertation in 1935. Bardeen went on to Harvard where he was hired as a Junior Fellow with a salary ...

Then in December, 1947, in a combination of brilliant theoretical insight and serendipitous accidents, Bardeen and Brattain produced the world’s first semiconductor amplifier—the point-contact ...

In 1947, with colleagues John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, he made the first successful amplifying semiconductor device. They called it a transistor (from transfer and resistor). Shockley made ...