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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.

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › William-ShockleyWilliam B. Shockley | Nobel Prize, semiconductor, transistor

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   Apr 8, 2024 · William B. Shockley (born Feb. 13, 1910, London, Eng.—died Aug. 12, 1989, Palo Alto, Calif., U.S.) 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 ...

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4. www.thoughtco.com › biography-of-william-shockleyBiography of William Shockley - ThoughtCo

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   Apr 24, 2020 · By. Robert Longley. Published on April 24, 2020. William Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910–August 12, 1989) was an American physicist, engineer, and inventor who led the research team credited with developing the transistor in 1947. For his achievements, Shockley shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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6. pubs.aip.org › physicstoday › articleBroken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator ...

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   Feb 1, 2007 · Google Scholar. Few physicists have been as controversial as William Shockley (1910–89), and few have been as influential in defining the contours of the electronics industry. Shockley headed the team that made the first point-contact transistor at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey.

7. www.nytimes.com › 1989/08/14 › obituariesWilliam B. Shockley, 79, Creator Of Transistor and Theory onn ...

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   Aug 14, 1989 · William Bradford Shockley, who shared a Nobel Prize in physics for his role in the creation of the transistor and earned the enmity of many for his views on the genetic differences between the...

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   Who was William Shockley?

   • William Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910–August 12, 1989) was an American physicist, engineer, and inventor who led the research team credited with developing the transistor in 1947. For his achievements, Shockley shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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   • Yet a few decades later that talent received the Nobel Prize in physics: William Shockley, the cocreator of the transistor. Ironically, not one of the more than 1,500 children who qualified according to his IQ criterion received so high an honor as adults."

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   Who was William Bradford Shockley?

   • 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.

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   • With his wife Emmy by his side, William Shockley died of prostate cancer at age 79 on August 12, 1989 in Stanford, California. He is buried at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, California. His children remained unaware of their father’s death until they read about it in the newspaper.

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9. nationalmaglab.org › pioneers › william-shockleyWilliam Shockley - Magnet Academy - National MagLab

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   William Shockley was a pioneer of solid-state physics and semiconductor devices. He developed the first point-contact and junction transistors at Bell Labs, shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, and founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory near Palo Alto, California. He also speculated on human intelligence and caused a controversy with his views on IQ.

10. www.npr.org › templates › storyElectronics Pioneer William Shockley's Legacy : NPR

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    Jul 21, 2006 · July 21, 20062:23 PM ET. Heard on Talk of the Nation. Listen. Inventor William Shockley won a Nobel Prize for his work on transistors, work that launched the modern electronic age. He also...