Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors with Applications to Transistor Electronics
Toronto, New York, London: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. 1950. First Edition. [2], [2 - frontispiece], [iii]-xxiii, [1 blank], [1]-558 pages, followed by blank leaf and appendix B which was printed on both sides of the rear flyleaf plus the rear pastedown (3 pages total). No dust jacket as often the case. The first printing, [November] 1950. Spine lightly sunned as usual, spine label still bright and readable. Ex-corporate library 'Western Electric Allentown Plant' with stamp and accession numbers on front and rear endpapers, and remnants of pocket and check-out tag on front pastedown endpaper. Otherwise clean and bright internally. Crease across entire title page, and corner creases on a group of about 10 pages. Spine slanted. Binding sound. Very Good. Cloth. [17702]
An important book by Shockley who, with Bardeen and Brattain, co-invented the transistor and were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 ''for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect''.
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