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William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs invented the first practical transistor, the point-contact transistor, in 1947.
Stan married Joan Clayton Boocock, originally from Newcastle, England, on December 5, 1947.
She was given her first film role, bit parts in Dangerous Years (1947).
