Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates    The First Transistor In
the late 40s three American scientists named William Shockley,
John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs, announced the
creation of the first transistor. The name transistor is a
combination of the words transfer and resistor - a transfer
resistor - a transistor. When it was announced the name was
explained; "because it is a resistor or semiconductor device
which can amplify electrical signals as they are transferred
through it from input to output terminals." This, the very first
transistor was called a point-contact transistor. Shockley,
Bardeen and Brattain received the Nobel Prize in Physics 1956
"for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of
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