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"the" Bell Labs was effectively gone by the 1970's anyway. So the Bell Labs described in this article was "the" Bell Labs
by j2kun 11mo ago
"the" Bell Labs was effectively gone by the 1970's anyway. So the Bell Labs described in this article was "the" Bell Labs
- gsf_emergency_6 11mo agoThat didnt stop the flow of Nobels For work done after 1970 - optical tweezers,laser cooling, quantum hall, superres microscopy, quantum dots (NP 2023) Not to forget Shor and Grover (1990s!) Holmdel had the antenna of Penzias/Wilson For me, this marked the end of Bell Labs (Murray Hill): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal#Beginning_of_fame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6n_scandal#Beginning_o... Not sure what the bottleneck was: https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2025/11/19/science-is-bottlenecked-by-institutions-not-talent/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2025/11/19/science-...
- j2kun 11mo agoI guess you have to read a lot into what the OP means by the italicized "the." I read it as a question of the size and scale of working groups vis-a-vis the scale of the impact.
- gsf_emergency_6 11mo agoAh right. The D in R&D, Deployment , was the thing that made Bell Labs special. Universities diluted the later Nobel credit but it was org-magic at Bell (Labs) that got break-through tech out.