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Jun 7, 2006 · As an entrepreneur, he had brought the first semiconductor company to Silicon Valley. His death would have been mourned as a tragically early end to a brilliant career.
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, later known as Shockley Transistor Corporation, was a pioneering semiconductor developer founded by William Shockley, and funded by Beckman Instruments, Inc., in 1955. [2]
Well known as the most important figure in semiconductor physics, Shockley was able to recruit top physicists, chemists, metallurgists, and electrical engineers to his new company. To his consternation, eight dissidents left to found Fairchild Semiconductor on September 19, 1957.
Feb 5, 2013 · As the documentary unfolds, we learn of the frustrations and limitations the eight felt under William Shockley, who invented the transistor and won a Nobel Prize for his work.
Aug 9, 2006 · After several years searching for an alternative career, Shockley finally left Bell Labs in 1956, returning to California to start the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, with financial...
- Paul Grant
- 2006
Feb 28, 2022 · Headed by a Nobel laureate and home to the industry’s brightest, Shockley Semiconductor was the first high-tech company in what would become Silicon Valley. But for many Shockley employees, the glamor of working under a co-creator of the first transistor quickly lost its luster.
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Jul 21, 2006 · He shared a Nobel Prize with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor and later went on to refine transistor technology, spawning the modern age of semiconductors and of...
