09/02/2011
Dr. Bortrum
Irene's Darkness and Lighting up the Phone
Personal experiences with Irene; work on LEDs at Bell Labs
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08/01/2011
Dr. Bortrum
Why the Secrecy
Solubility of arsenic in germanium leads to a patent mystery
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07/02/2011
Dr. Bortrum
Impurities and Other Matters
Studying impurities in germanium and silicon; who made the first silicon transistor?
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06/01/2011
Dr. Bortrum
Off to a Shaky Start
How not to start a career at Bell Labs
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05/01/2011
Dr. Bortrum
Disappointing Conditions in Cleveland
A "Humph" from boss at NACA leads to Bell Labs interview
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04/01/2011
Dr. Bortrum
Nickel and Ccopper Switch Places
What to do without a cyclotron?
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02/28/2011
Dr. Bortrum
Numbers - Planets, Microbes, Courtship and Phone
A plethora of planets, trillions of microbes, plotting x and y, and a wrong number brings back memories.
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02/02/2011
Dr. Bortrum
Looking Back 60 and Also Billions of Years
Bortrum celebrates his 60th wedding anniversary - how it all began
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01/07/2011
Dr. Bortrum
Voyager, E8 and Bio
Chapter 5 of Bortrum's Bio; a bit on Voyager 1 and on a possible theory of everything
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11/30/2010
Dr. Bortrum
College Years and SomeScience
A habitable planet (?) and memoirs continue
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10/31/2010
Dr. Bortrum
Bortrum's Bio Continued
World War II and its effects on Bortrum's life in high school
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09/29/2010
Dr. Bortrum
More Bortrum Bio - Breyer's Ice Cream
Ice cream choice a life saver, as was a guard rail in Iowa
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08/31/2010
Dr. Bortrum
Bortrum Bio - Origins
First chapter of memoirs with a bit of King Tut and brain size
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07/31/2010
Dr. Bortrum
Stars and Whales
Speedy and massive stars; whales in the desert
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06/30/2010
Dr. Bortrum
Running a Red Light and Neutrinos
Plan to write solely about neutrinos derailed by an avoided car crash
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