William Shockley

Born

February 13, 1910

Died

August 12, 1989 (aged 79)

Known as

physicist, inventor, university teacher

William Bradford Shockley was an American physicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect."

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