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Dec 2, 2001 · To get Fairchild Semiconductor started he pledged $30,000 in seed capital, in return for an option to buy out the team on a sliding scale, ranging from $2 million after two years to $5 million ...
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 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.
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Jul 21, 2006 · Mr. SHURKIN: Shockley had decided he was going to change technologies. He was going to do something that was called the Shockley diode, which had virtually no market whatsoever.
Apr 6, 1997 · By Ronald Kessler. April 6, 1997 at 12:00 a.m. EST. At office parties William Shockley would perform magic tricks, pulling red balls, coins or flowers out of people's noses or ears. He would...
Once he did, Shockley staggered out of the room, seemingly broken. Yet this is where his greatest contribution began. It wasn’t at Shockley Semiconductors — that soon went bust — but with the lessons William Shockley had inadvertently imparted.
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William Shockley. William Bradford Shockley was head of the solid-state physics team at Bell Labs that developed the first point-contact transistor, which he quickly followed up with the invention of the more advanced junction transistor.
