Dallas / Stockholm / Syosset / Mountain View / Geneva / Palo Alto / Baltimore / New York / Newport Beach / Washington / DC / Cambridge / /
Company
Hayden Stone / The MIT Press / Beckman Industries Inc. / Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation / RCA / Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory / Oxford University Press / Diodes / Bell Telephone Laboratories / The Johns Hopkins University Press / Western Electric Company / IBM / Clevite Corporation / AT&T / Shockley Transistor Company / Bell Labs. / Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory / Golden West / Texas Instruments Inc. / Raytheon / From Bell Labs / Intel Corporation / W. W. Norton & Co. / Instrument Corporation / Philco / /
Country
United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Person Travel / Business Partnership / Name Change / Employment Change / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory / Stanford University / Mountain View laboratory / American Institute of Physics / University of California / Rickey’s Studio Inn / Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory / /
IndustryTerm
semiconductor technology / interconnections between devices / important technology-transfer role / manufacturing process / diffused-silicon devices / planar technology / planar manufacturing process / development / planar processing / avionics applications / metal cans / disruptive new technology / manufacturing diffusedbase transistors / silicon technologies / silicon technology / semiconductor devices / similar devices / metal-oxidesemiconductor / planar processing technique / diffused-silicon technologies / manufacturing arm / transistor technology / possible solution / electron devices / individual devices / stellar / /
NaturalFeature
West Coast / /
Organization
American Institute of Physics / The Johns Hopkins University / Caltech / American Physical Society / Oxford University / Group of Eight / Pentagon / MIT / Society for the History of Technology / University of California / Santa Cruz / Stanford University / Shockley Lab / Electrochemical Society / /
Person
Michael Riordan / Arnold Beckman / Nick Holonyak / Lillian Hoddeson / Calvin Fuller / Ross Knox Bassett / Sally Hacker / Jack Kilby / Victor Grinich / Henry Theurer / Michael S. Wolff / Mervin Kelly / Ross Bassett / Morris Tanenbaum / Leslie Berlin / Sheldon Roberts / Morgan Sparks / William Shockley / Julius Blank / Lincoln Derick / Robert N. Noyce / Jay Last / Walter Brattain / Christophe Lécuyer / Kurt Hübner / Crystal Fire / Andrew W. Gemant / D. Van Nostrand / Gordon Moore / Jean A. Hoerni / Jean Hoerni / Eugene Kleiner / Wayne Miller / Jack Morton / D. E. Thomas / John Bardeen / Carl Frosch / Robert Noyce / Jack Morton / head of device development / /
Position
patent attorney / president / head of transistor research / secretary / head / head of device development / adjunct professor / Author / patent engineer / professor of physics / theoretical physicist / visiting professor / research director / chemist / attorney / head of table / collector / General Manager / patent licensing engineer / physicist / professor of engineering / historian of technology / lecturer / physical chemist / military advisor / /
From Bell Labs to Silicon Valley: A Saga of Semiconductor Technology Transfer, [removed]* by Michael Riordan