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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by ThePhysicist on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:34AM (#36999093)
Funny enough Bardeen went on to work out the theory of conventional superconductivity later (with two other researchers) and got another Nobel prize out of it. What's your issue with Shockley btw?
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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by shortrounddev2 on Friday August 04, 2023 @11:02AM (#37000982)
Shockley invented a different kind of transistor which was less fragile. Bardeen and Brattain invented the point-contact transistor

> What's your issue with Shockley btw

Well he was a mega racist, but that's not relevant

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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by gsmecher on Friday August 04, 2023 @12:26PM (#37002200)
> What's your issue with Shockley btw?

Nobody can pick fights with Shockley any more (he's dead) - but Shockley is almost a household name, and Bardeen/Brattain's aren't. It's worth trying to adjust the record, both because Shockley was an abusive jerk and because he gets more credit than is due for the transistor.

(I'm not denying that Shockley was brilliant and effective.)

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