TY - JOUR
TI - From vaseline to the silicon revolution: the unusual history of the greatest Polish discovery that changed the world
AU - Tomaszewski, Paweł E.
TI - From vaseline to the silicon revolution: the unusual history of the greatest Polish discovery that changed the world
AB - 
	In August 2016 exactly one hundred years passed from the discovery of the Czochralski method of single crystal pulling, named after Jan Czochralski (1885–1953), the Polish chemist and metallurgist. To celebrate this anniversary, a translation of Czochralski main publication into Polish was published. In the present paper we show the pharmaceutical inspiration which was most likely a source of the discovery of the Czochralski method. We present the evolution of this method up to obtaining huge single crystals of silicon, the fundamental element of contemporary electronics and our civilization.
VL - 2017
IS - 16 (2017)
PY - 2017
SN - 2451-3202
C1 - 2543-702X
SP - 155
EP - 200
DO - 10.4467/2543702XSHS.17.008.7709
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-historiae-scientiarum/article/od-wazeliny-do-krzemowej-rewolucji-czyli-niezwykla-historia-najwiekszego-polskiego-odkrycia-ktore-zmienilo-swiat
KW - Czochralski method; trichite test of vaseline; Teal’s improvements