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		j2kun 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Boring Part of Bell Labs "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 1 day ago [–]

That 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_o...

Not sure what the bottleneck was: https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2025/11/19/science-...

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