William Shockley

William Shockley

Lee Felsenstein

Lee Felsenstein
  • 1955 - William Shockley founds Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Palo Alto, California

 

  • 1956 - John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley share the Nobel Prize in physics for the transistor

 

  • 1957 - Fairchild Semiconductor is founded

 

  • Kenneth Olsen founds Digital Equipment Corporation

 

  • 1959 - Lee Felsenstein fails in his first attempt to design a computer

 

  • National Semiconductor is founded