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Gerald L. Pearson
Pages 210-213

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... He was a key participant in the research effort at the Bell Telephone Laboratories (BTL) , which brought the transistor and related semiconductor devices into being.
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... He joined the Stanford faculty in 1960 and made the transition from the Bell Laboratories to Stanford with rare flexibility and insight. He promptly developed a team of research students, mastered the task of getting governmental support for his and their research, and established expectations in his team for excellence of work ant!
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... from The Electrochemical Society, and the 1981 Gallium Arsenide Symposium Award from Japan. Gerald Pearson was a colleague inclined to work procluctively and congenially outside his own domain.
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