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   Waldo Jaquith (waldoj@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 21:59:56 JST Waldo Jaquith

   I’m reading a history of the development of the transistor, and I’m struck by the fact that some of the most important quantum physics research in the world was happening at Bell Labs, in the 1930s and 1940s, in service of improving telephony.

   Is there any equivalent of this today? Is any major corporation funding Nobel-winning basic scientific research as a routine business practice?