Transistors. Do American Scientists Really Have Priority?

The conditions under which the transistor was created are considered. Information about the opening of the p-n transition in the UNITED STATES and the USSR is provided. Biographies of J. Bardeen, W. Shockley, and W Brattain, as well as Ukrainian scientist Vadim Lashkariov, are presented. The reasons why the priority in creating a transistor belongs to American scientists are shown. It emphasized the impossibility of the reaction of Ukrainian scientists to award the Americans with the Nobel Prize and, accordingly, the recognition of the priority in the opening of the transistor by the world scientific community. American scientists worked in Bell Telephone Laboratories, founded in 1925, they were free to choose research, while Ukrainian scientist was repressed, he was “unreliable” and could not leave the country. The discovery of the p-n transition that was made by Russell Shoemaker Ohl in 1939 and the inability to find out about it in Ukraine are analyzed. It is claimed that a similar discovery was made by V. Lashkariov in 1941.