29 December Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

Events

1939 - William Shockley wrote in his diary that an amplifier can be made using semiconductor instead of vacuum tube. The transistor was made of semiconductor and Shockley shared Nobel prize for its invention in 1956 with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain.
http://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/December/29/

1952 - The first transistor hearing aid went on sale, the model 1010 manufactured by the Sonotone Corporation in Elmsford, NY, U.S.

Birthdays - Scientists, Engineers and Managers - Academicians and Professionals

1766 - Charles Macintosh (Chemist and inventor - water proof cloth)
1800 - Charles Goodyear (Vulcanizing Process)
1864 - Henry P. Deforest (Finger Printing)
1905 - Henri -Gaston Busignies (Electronic Engineer  - invented High frequency direction finders)

Birthdays - Nobel Prize Winners

1910 Ronald Coase
        http://bfi.uchicago.edu/news/coase100.shtml
        http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbobelian/2011/12/29/happy-birthday-ronald-coase-the-father-of-the-most-influential-legal-movement-that-few-people-have-ever-heard-of/
        http://www.coase.org/coaseonline.htm

Management Knowledge Revision

Expected Values and Risk of Project Revenues
http://nraomtr.blogspot.in/2011/12/expected-values-and-risk-of-project.html

Managerial Economics of Profit - Economics for CEO
http://nraomtr.blogspot.in/2011/12/managerial-economics-of-profit.html


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