William Shockley
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What happened with William Shockley on 13 February, 1948

13 February, 1948

John N. Shive, a member of Shockley's team at Bell Labs, built a point-contact transistor with bronze contacts on both sides of a thin germanium wedge. This demonstrated that holes could diffuse through the bulk of the germanium, not just along the surface, as previously believed. Shive's experiment ignited Shockley's invention of the junction transistor.
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