Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors with Applications to Transistor Electronics

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pp. 558, a later reprint of the 1950 edition,
“Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors, published in 1950, was Shockley’s only book and became a classic of twentieth century science texts. In 551 pages, many of them crammed with formulae and graphs, mundanely bound inside a dull blue-gray and black dust cover, Shockley captured everything then known about semiconductors, even pushing the knowledge about five years into the future with his detailed description of the junction transistor concept. Almost every electrical engineering class in the English-speaking world and most solid state physics classes used it either as a text or at least as a reference book” (Shurkin, Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley).