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William Shockley
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American physicist and inventor (1910–1989)
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William B. Shockley was born on February 13, 1910, and died on August 12, 1989. He held an Erdős number of 5.
Shockley received one Nobel Prize. His work is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics1956
“for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect”
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- London
- Place of death
- Stanford
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Doctoral advisor
- John C. Slater
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- William Shockley, Stanford University.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1910-02-13
- date of death
- 1989-08-12
- cause of death
- prostate cancer
- member of
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- Erdős number
- 5
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
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- William Shockley
- place of burial
- Alta Mesa Memorial Park
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- Nobel disease
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- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) 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."
Partly as a result of Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s, California's Silicon Valley became a hotbed of electronics innovation. He recruited brilliant employees, but quickly alienated them with his autocratic and erratic management; they left and founded major companies in the industry.
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