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American engineer and research administrator who served as president of Bell Laboratories from 1940 to 1951 — overseeing the laboratory during World War II and the early postwar period — and who supported the fundamental research that led to the transistor invention.
American physicist who co-invented the transistor at Bell Labs in 1947 with John Bardeen and William Shockley — sharing the 1956 Nobel Prize — and who contributed the experimental work that made the point-contact transistor functional.