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This second part of my interview with Andor Frenkel focuses on my life and work in America. After arriving in New York in March 1941 and visiting relatives and friends in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, my friend Edward Teller, who had a professorship at George Washington University, invited me to his home in Arlington,Virginia, where I stayed until June while he attempted to locate a position...
The energy bands of semiconductors were known only qualitatively at the time of the invention of the transistor in 1947. The real bands became known only in 1954 when Frank Herman used a combination of experimental information and W. Conyers Herring’s Orthogonalized Plane Wave method to propose essentially correct band structures for silicon and germanium. Further understanding came with better descriptions...
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