SEMICONDUCTORS, SIX WORKS, 1948-55

i. Bardeen, John (1908-1991), and Brattain, Walter Houser (1902-1987). "The Transistor, a Semi-Conductor Triode" [in:] The Physical Review, second series, vol. 74, no. 2, July 1948, 4to, original printed paper wrappers, [T&W B88, B89, S112]ii. Bardeen, J., and Brattain, W.H. "The Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action" [in:] The Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, April 1949, 8vo, original printed paper wrappers, (bought from Philip J. Pirages, 1995), [T&W B87; Origins of Cyberspace 450]iii. Another edition [in;] The Physical Review, second series, vol. 75, no. 8, April 1949, 4to, original printed paper wrappers, (bought from Yelm, 2003), [not in T&W]iv. Scott, Thomas R. (d. 1972). Transistors and other crystal valves. London: Macdonald and Evans, 1955, 8vo, 2 pages of photographic plates, original cloth, dust-jacket, stamp, spotting, [T&W S72]v. Shockley, William Bradford, Jr (1910-1989). Electrons and holes in semiconductors. Toronto: Van Nostrand, 1953, 8vo, third printing, photographic frontispiece, original cloth, dust-jacket, jacket frayed [T&W S109; Origins of Cyberspace 904]vi. Shockley, W., and Read, W.T., Jr. "Statistics of the Recombinations of Holes and Electrons" [in:] The Physical Review, second series, vol. 87, no. 5, September 1952, 4to, original printed wrappers, [T&W S113]

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A group of early papers on the transistor, including a brief early letter noting the discovery (1948) and the first comprehensive report (1949), which was published simultaneously in two journals. Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect".