‎"SHOCKLEY, W.‎
‎The Quantum Physics of Solids, I. The Energies of Electrons in Crystals. - [PHYSICS NOBEL PRIZE 1956 - THE FATHER OF SILICON VALLEY.]‎

‎New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1939. 8vo. Original full blue cloth. The entire volume XVIII, 1939 of The Bell System Technical Journal. Library stamp to free front end-paper. Binding tight and clean. Also internally very nice and clean. Pp. 645-724. [Entire volume: (8), 748 pp.].‎

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‎First edition of the first paper of a series of three on the quantum physics of solids by the Nobel Prize winner in Physics William Shockley.""It is proposed to make this paper the first of a series of three dealing with the quantum physics of solids"" (From the introduction to the present article). William Shockley was co-Inventor of the Transistor which awarded him the Nobel Prize in 1956. His attempts to commercialize the transistor in the 1950s and 1960s led to California's ""Silicon Valley"" becoming a hub of electronics innovation.‎