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William Shockley
Transistor co-inventor
Bell Labs | Associates: John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, Esther M. Conwell, Mervin Kelly, Gerald Pearson, William Gardner Pfann
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… More on Wikipedia →
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