I'm often wondering what our world would be like if Oleg Losev wouldn't have got proper funding to test some of his more interesting ideas (more than probable in 20's Russia), leading to resistance-transfer effect in semiconductors not being noticed for a few more decades... No Nobel Prize for Abram Ioffe, sure... Less brutal WWII probably, without guided bombs, radars, rockets not being new gods of war... Anything else? And when they would be invented?
EDIT, OOC: Although it isn't in WP article, Losev indeed had mentioned experiments with three-electrodes setup which could work as transistor, had he used Ge or Si instead of cheaper SiC.
EDIT, OOC: Although it isn't in WP article, Losev indeed had mentioned experiments with three-electrodes setup which could work as transistor, had he used Ge or Si instead of cheaper SiC.
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