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New Haven: Yale University Press 1955. Hard Cover. Ex-Library. Science in Progress was a method of distributing valuable research information in a variety of fields to a wider audience. Many fields were represented, including an article "Transistor Physics" by William Shockley who won the Nobel Prize for physics with Bardeen and Brittain in the year following this article for "their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect." The transistor, discovered in 1948, had by this time "developed from a state of feasibility in the laboratory to a useful article of commerce.". This article emphasises "chiefly the most basic underlying physical phenomena..." Shockley notes that it seems likely the field "will grow for many years and that interesting and satisfying work will continue along these lines for a long time to come." An interesting overview of the "state of the art" at the time, including photographs of several devices as well as test harnesses. An exlibrary copy with spine panel fading and label, and labels on the front and rear pastedowns. Clean internally otherwise, sound binding. Good.

[Book #11000]