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Biographical. William Shockley was born in London, England, on 13th February, 1910, the son of William Hillman Shockley, a mining engineer born in Massachusetts and his wife, Mary ( née Bradford) who had also been engaged in mining, being a deputy mineral surveyor in Nevada.
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.
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...
Feb 1, 2007 · 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.
Jul 21, 2006 · July 21, 20062:23 PM ET. Heard on Talk of the Nation. Listen. Download. Embed. < Transcript. Inventor William Shockley won a Nobel Prize for his work on transistors, work that launched the...
William Shockley. 1910 - 1989. William Shockley was born in London to American parents who were in England for several years on business. His father was a mining engineer and his mother a...
William Shockley: The Will to Think. Book. © 2021. Download book PDF. Download book EPUB. Overview. Authors: Bo Lojek. Presents a new look at the life of Nobel laureate William B. Shockley. Introduces never-before-published personal correspondence and private writings.
