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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.
William 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.
William Shockley is an American actor, writer, producer (p.g.a.) and director. Shockley is a partner in Tiki Tane Pictures along with Allen Gilmer and Tom Brady, a film production company based in Los Angeles and Austin, TX.
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.
Apr 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.
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.
This book takes a fresh look at the work, thoughts, and life of 1956 Nobel Prize winner William B. Shockley. It reconstructs Shockley’s upbringing, his patriotic achievements during World War II, his contribution to semiconductor physics – culminating with the epoch-making invention of the transistor – and his views on the social issues ...
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...
