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Picking The People Of Progress

Spring 2000 | Volume 15 |  Issue 4

I ENJOYED EDWARD SOREL’S DEPICTION of the century’s “People of Progress” in the Winter 2000 issue, and I do not disagree with the selection. There is a trio, however, that I feel should have been included: Walter Brattain, John Bardeen, and William Shockley, the inventors of the transistor, which made possible the computer age.

 

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Roger L. Gaefcke
Playa del Rey, Calif.

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