On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

As a consultant during World War II, he estimated that an American invasion of Japan would produce such high casualties that US leaders instead decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ...

William Shockley was born in London to American parents who were in England for several years on business. His father was a mining engineer and his mother a federal deputy surveyor of mineral lands.

Pursuing scientific inquiry into the applications of solid-state physics, Bell Laboratories Physicist William Shockley played a major role in the invention of the junction transistor, shared a 1956 ...

I: Moira: May and Billy -- 'I've got dark eyes. I can frighten people' -- The lightness of being -- II: Hubris: war and the transistor -- 'Of a highly explosive character' -- 'I hope you have better ...

The synopsis is: Dermot Mulroney stars as Dallas Garrett, a former outlaw living with a lifetime full of regrets, who takes a ...