Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors with Applications to Transistor Electronics

Toronto, New York, London: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. Good. 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). 8vo. The first printing, [November] 1950. Publisher's light blue cloth boards with black and gilt spine label. Lacks the dust jacket as normal. Ex-libary (Rowland Institute) with the usual markings. Well read. Cloth. 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''.

A standard reference in the field.

The Rowland Institute for Science was a research group set up by Edwin Land after leaving Polaroid. (Inventory #: 29611)