Calvin Souther Fuller
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Calvin Souther Fuller was an American physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked for 37 years from 1930 to 1967. Fuller was part of a team in basic research that found answers to physi
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Calvin Souther Fuller at work (left) at a printing press as a teenager at the end of World War I.
Silicon
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Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic lustre, and is a tetravalent non-metal and semiconductor. It is
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…700,000 tons of the synthetic rubber produced in 1945. Working with Bell Telephone scientists Daryl Chapin and Gerald Pearson, Fuller diffused boron into silicon to capture the Sun's power. In doing so, they created the first practical means of collecting energy from the Sun and turning it into a current of…
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Jöns Jacob Berzelius discovered silicon in 1823.
Single crystal of silicon grown by the Czochralski process used to make integrated circuits
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