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Riordan, Michael was born on December 3, 1946 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward John and Evelyn Anna (Hnizdo) Riordan.
(Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Bir...)
Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age by Riordan, Michael ( Author ) Paperback Dec- 1998 Paperback Dec- 17- 1998
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(This is the story of the transistor, one of the most impo...)
This is the story of the transistor, one of the most important inventions of the 20th century, which was invented at the Bell Laboratories in December 1947 by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain and developed by their co-Nobel Prize winner, William Shockley.
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(By Michael Riordan, previously coauthor of Solar Home Boo...)
By Michael Riordan, previously coauthor of Solar Home Book and, as of 1987, affiliated with Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center. ISBN 0671648845. From Library Journal: "During the 1960s and 70s the "Standard Model" theory of elementary particles was developed and was supported by experimental findings; the theory involves quarks, entities at the sub-nuclear level which carry fractional electrical charges and which cannot be isolated from the complex of particles in which they exist. Riordan, an experimentalist involved in the quark "hunt," tells the story colorfully, with many brief sketches of the personalities involved. An excellent book to show lay readers the drama and the disappointments of life on a research frontier."
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(More than 90 percent of the Universe is unseen, unknown. ...)
More than 90 percent of the Universe is unseen, unknown. Ordinary telescopes cannot detect it - nor can radio antennas. Yet there is convincing evidence that it exists - as something called "dark matter". At the same time, recent discoveries about the structure of the Universe are challenging accepted views about its very origins. Michael Riordan and David Schramm explore a scientific mystery: What is this dark matter? What does it have to-do with the structure of the universe - the uncountable galaxies and clusters of galaxies that constitute the firmament? What does it tell us about the birth of our universe? Riordan and Schramm explore these questions, as they describe efforts underway at observatories, laboratories and particle colliders to determine the nature of dark matter. "The Shadows of Creation" is an account of the complicated puzzles that challenge today's physicists and cosmologists.
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("Without the invention of the transistor, I'm quite sure ...)
"Without the invention of the transistor, I'm quite sure that the PC would not exist as we know it today." Bill Gates, CEO, Microsoft Corporation. On December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laboratories, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of germanium half an inch long. The electrical power coming out of that piece of germanium was 100 times stronger than what went in. In that moment the transistor was invented and the Information Age began. Crystal Fire recounts the story of the transistor team at Bell Labs headed up by William Shockley, who shared the Nobel Prize with Bardeen and Brattain. While his colleagues went on to other research, Shockley grew increasingly obsessed with the new gadget. Eventually he formed his own firm, the first semiconductor company in what would become Silicon Valley. Above all, Crystal Fire is a tale of the human factors in technology; the pride and jealousies coupled with scientific and economic aspiration that led to the creation of modern microelectronics and ignited the greatest technological explosion in history.
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Riordan, Michael was born on December 3, 1946 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward John and Evelyn Anna (Hnizdo) Riordan.
Bachelor of Science in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973.
Research associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973-1975; editor, publisher, Cheshire Books, Inc., Palo Alto, California, 1976-1985; research scientist, U. Rochester, New York, 1985-1987; science information officer, Stanford (California) Linear Accelerator Center, 1988-1990; assistant to director, Stanford (California) Linear Accelerator Center, since 1992; assistant to president and staff scientist, Universities Research Association, Inc., Washington, 1990-1991; research physicist, University of California, Santa Cruz, since 1995. Treasurer, director Contemporary Physics Education Project, Inc., Portola Valley, California, 1991-1994.
(This is the story of the transistor, one of the most impo...)
(Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Bir...)
(By Michael Riordan, previously coauthor of Solar Home Boo...)
("Without the invention of the transistor, I'm quite sure ...)
(The Solar Home Book: heating, cooling and designing with ...)
(More than 90 percent of the Universe is unseen, unknown. ...)
(Book by Anderson, Bruce, Riordan, Michael)
(Book by Riordan, Michael)
Treasurer, vice president Cuesta La Honda (California) Guild, 1986-1987. Member American Physical Society, National Association Science Writers, History of Science Society.
Married Linda Michele Goodman, April 10, 1979 (divorced August 1988). Married Sandra Lee Foster, September 10, 1988 (divorced July 1990).