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Why not the inventors of the transistor?

Anyway, at least I'm happy the Nobel prize committee isn't based in the US. Otherwise we'd soon see the Nobel prize for advertising.



There are many inventions and people from AT&T Bell Labs that deserve their own coin.


Wasn't he a mega racist and eugenicist?


Maybe, but that's the flip side of the coin ...


Or venture capital.

I'm thinking Elizabeth Holmes should either be on a coin or get some kind of Nobel.

(he said in jest)

But seriously, Lee de Forest (Iowa or New York), Chester Carlson (Washington, New York), Charles Martin Hall (Ohio), Philo Farnsworth (Utah)…


Who? that's why they're not on a coin.




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