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William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American inventor, physicist, and eugenicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain.
William Shockley (born September 17, 1963) is an American actor and musician. He was born in Lawrence, Kansas. He graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in political science. He has appeared mainly in TV series; he is best known for his role as Hank Lawson on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
YearTitleRole2023Jensen Longley2020Tex2020Love by DrowningDetective Bill Dickerson2020LemonheadsSkinnerWilliam B. Shockley was an American engineer and teacher, cowinner (with John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for their development of the transistor, a device that largely replaced the bulkier and less-efficient vacuum tube and ushered in the age of.
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William Shockley was a pioneer of transistor physics and a professor at Stanford University. He shared the Nobel Prize with John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain for their work on semiconductors.
Apr 24, 2020 · Learn about the life and achievements of William Shockley, who led the team that invented the transistor in 1947 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956. Also, explore his controversial views on eugenics and intelligence, which sparked criticism and controversy.
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Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. William Bradford Shockley. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956. Born: 13 February 1910, London, United Kingdom. Died: 12 August 1989, Palo Alto, CA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA.
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Nov 17, 2022 · The coinventor of the transistor, William Shockley, who along with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics, is correctly recognized as a primary architect of the computer age.
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