PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE 1956 - THE FATHER OF SILICON VALLEY.

SHOCKLEY, W.

The Quantum Physics of Solids, I. The Energies of Electrons in Crystals.

New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1939. 8vo. Original full blue cloth. The entire volume XVIII, 1939 of The Bell System Technical Journal. Library stamp to free front end-paper. Binding tight and clean. Also internally very nice and clean. Pp. 645-724. [Entire volume: (8), 748 pp.].

First edition of the first paper of a series of three on the quantum physics of solids by the Nobel Prize winner in Physics William Shockley.
"It is proposed to make this paper the first of a series of three dealing with the quantum physics of solids" (From the introduction to the present article).

William Shockley was co-Inventor of the Transistor which awarded him the Nobel Prize in 1956. His attempts to commercialize the transistor in the 1950s and 1960s led to California's "Silicon Valley" becoming a hub of electronics innovation.

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