HOUSE OF MAGIC
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HOUSE OF MAGIC By Jon Gertner In the early fall of 1947, Bardeen and Shockley made their short drives to Murray Hill every morning—Shockley from the town of Madison, Bardeen from the town of Summit. Brattain would come to Murray Hill by carpool from nearby Morris- town. For more than a year their solid-state group had been scientifically vigorous and socially cohesive—Shockley and Bardeen had even spent several weeks to- gether in the summer of 1947 visiting various European laboratories.
