William Shockley
Physicist, Academic
1910 – 1989
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Who was William Shockley?
William Bradford Shockley Jr. was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s led to California's "Silicon Valley" becoming a hotbed of electronics innovation. In his later life, Shockley was a professor at Stanford and became a staunch advocate of eugenics.
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- Born
- Feb 13, 1910
London - Also known as
- William Bradford Shockley
- William Bradford Shockley Jr.
- Religion
- Atheism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- California Institute of Technology
- Employment
- Bell Labs
- Stanford University
- Died
- Aug 12, 1989
Stanford
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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