[Boatanchors] Fundamental Research

[Richard Knoppow]

    An extremely impressive list. I knew about this stuff but 
somehow skipped over it.

On 4/22/2022 5:20 PM, Nick England wrote:
> Claude Shannon? Harry Nyquist?
> 
> Nobel Prizes in Physics for work done at Bell Labs
> 
>   *
>     1937: Clinton Davisson for discovering that electrons
>     diffract like light
>     <https://www.britannica.com/science/light> waves
>   *
>     1956: John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, and William B.
>     Shockley for inventing the transistor
>     <https://www.britannica.com/technology/transistor>
>   *
>     1977: Philip W. Anderson
>     <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-W-Anderson> for
>     his study of disordered materials
>   *
>     1978: Arno Penzias and Robert W. Wilson for discovering the
>     cosmic microwave background radiation
>   *
>     1997: Steven Chu
>     <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Steven-Chu> for his
>     research in cooling and trapping atoms
>     <https://www.britannica.com/science/atom> using laser
>     <https://www.britannica.com/technology/laser>light
>   *
>     1998: Horst L. Störmer
>     <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horst-Stormer>, Robert
>     B. Laughlin
>     <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-B-Laughlin>, and
>     Daniel C. Tsui
>     <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-C-Tsui> for
>     discovering the fractional quantum
>     <https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quantum>Hall
>     effect <https://www.britannica.com/science/Hall-effect>
>   *
>     2009: Willard Boyle
>     <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willard-Boyle> and
>     George E. Smith
>     <https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-E-Smith> for
>     inventing the charge-coupled device
>     <https://www.britannica.com/technology/CCD> (CCD
>     <https://www.britannica.com/technology/CCD>)
>   *
>     2018: Arthur Ashkin
>     <https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arthur-Ashkin> for
>     inventing optical tweezers
>     <https://www.britannica.com/science/optical-tweezer>
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 6:50 PM Richard Knoppow 
> <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com <mailto:1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>> wrote:
> 
>          I think the research behind the laser probably fits in as
>     basic research but I am not so sure about the development of the
>     transistor. Basic research means the discovery of new physical
>     principles, not just the application of known principles to
>     practical purposes. I don't remember the details of the
>     development of the transistor but it seems to me that
>     "amplifying
>     crystals" long predated the transistor even though they were not
>     practical. I also do not remember what was attributed to GE as
>     basic discovery. However, Bell Labs seems to have been well
>     ahead
>     of the game.
> 
>     On 4/22/2022 3:20 PM, manualman at juno.com
>     <mailto:manualman at juno.com> wrote:
>      > I agree with Jim. There were many "fundamental research"
>     projects going
>      > on at Bell Telephone Laboratories (BTL) all the time.
>     Their fundamental
>      > research into infrared and optical light as powerful tools for
>      > spectroscopy  eventually would lead them into the
>     invention of the laser.
>      > Having worked at Bell Telephone Labs for many years, I was
>     always in awe
>      > at some the research avenues engineers and scientists were
>     pursuing on a
>      > daily basis. Was never sorry I turned down a job offer at RCA
>      > Laboratories in West Windsor/Princeton, NJ and took the
>     job offer at BTL.
>      >
>      > Pete, wa2cwa
>      >
>      >
>      > On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 21:33:24 +0000 JAMES HANLON
>     <knjhanlon at msn.com <mailto:knjhanlon at msn.com>>
>      > writes:
>      >> Richard Knoppow wrote"While all did important
>      >> industrial research none did much fundamental research." 
>     I think
>      >> Bell Labs' invention of the transistor certainly ranks as
>     important
>      >> "fundamental research."
>      >>
>      >> Jim, W8KGI
>      >
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