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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.
Dec 2, 2001 · Co-inventor of the transistor, the freshly minted laureate presides over a team looking for all the world like the proud inheritors of the future: Lured to Northern California by Bill Shockley,...
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 was awarded jointly to William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
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.
Jun 7, 2006 · The rise and fall of William Shockley. POSTERITY would have been kinder to William Shockley had he not survived a head-on collision with a drunk driver in 1961. Then 51, he had won the...
Career. William became very involved when WWII broke out. He began to work with radar research at Bell Laboratories in New York. He later left in 1942 and became a research director of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Group. As research director, he devised many methods to counter submarine tactics.
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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.
