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(left to right): John Bardeen (1908-1991), William Bradford Shockley (1910-1989), Charles Hard Townes (b. 1915), and Walter Houser Brattain (1902-1987)

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Creator:
Petrovec, Joe  Search this
Subject:
Shockley, William 1910-  Search this
Brattain, Walter H (Walter Houser) 1902-1987  Search this
Bardeen, John  Search this
Townes, Charles H  Search this
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)  Search this
University of California, Berkeley  Search this
Stanford University  Search this
Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Search this
Bell Telephone Laboratories  Search this
Type:
Black-and-white photographs
Date:
February 1967
Summary:
Group photo of four Nobel laureates at retirement ceremonies at Bell Laboratories for Walter Houser Brattain (1902-1987). In 1967, John Bardeen (1908-1991), who had worked at Bell Laboratories, was on faculty at University of Illinois; William Bradford Shockley (1910-1989) was on faculty at Stanford University; Charles Hard Townes was at MIT (he moved to University of California-Berkeley later that year). Bardeen, Shockley, and Walter Brattain had shared Nobel Prize in 1956 for work that led to development of transistor; Townes shared a Nobel in physics in 1955 with two Soviet scientists; Bardeen received a second Nobel in physics in 1972.
Cite as:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2007-0358
Repository Loc.:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Topic:
Physics  Search this
Nobel Prizes  Search this
Local number:
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2007-0358]
Restrictions & Rights:
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Data Source:
Smithsonian Institution Archives
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_arc_290402