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  1. 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 .

  2. 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 and ushered in the age of microminiature electronics.

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  3. Apr 24, 2020 · 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. As a professor of electrical engineering at ...

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  4. In 1963 he was selected as recipient of the Holley Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Dr. Shockley has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel of the U.S. Army since 1951 and he has served on the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board since 1958. In 1962 he was appointed to the President’s Scientific Advisory Committee.

  5. Jun 11, 2022 · The first stage of the life of the American physicist William Shockley, the Nobel Prize winning inventor of the solid-state transistor and the first truly world historic figure in the history of Silicon Valley scientific-entrepreneurial disruption, reads as programmatically as the twenty-first century artificially intelligent algorithms which his twentieth century discoveries enabled.

  6. Dec 2, 2001 · The Twisted Legacy of William Shockley. By MICHAEL A. HILTZIK. Dec. 2, 2001 12 AM PT. Michael A. Hiltzik last wrote for the magazine about how DVDs changed filmmaking. The event depicted in the ...

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  8. Jul 21, 2006 · Inventor William Shockley won a Nobel Prize for his work on transistors, work that launched the modern electronic age. He also became widely known for controversial ideas on eugenics and race ...

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