Dummer and Dumb

May 7, 1952: British engineer Geoffrey Dummer proposes at a symposium in Washington that multiple circuit elements could be built on one integrated chip. He spends the next five years trying to create it. But when he doesn’t succeed, the British military drops its support. Within two years, the microchip is patented in the U.S. What went wrong with Dummer’s research? So ...  what other scientists lost out to now more famous competitors?

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