Abstract
R A Smith 1978 London: Cambridge University Press xvii + 523 pp price £27.50 (£8.95 paperback)
It is difficult to believe that 20 years have passed since R A Smith's classic book Semiconductors was published. The publication was an event of practical significance, since before then students of the subject were forced to draw their knowledge from a variety of published papers and reviews – there was no complete treatment of semiconductors as a class.