Alphabetical Index
Index by Year of Birth
Nobel Prize
Laureates
William Bradford Shockley
1956 Physics
* 1910 in London
+ 1989 in Stanford
William Bradford Shockley Jr. was an American physicist and
inventor.
Shockley 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".
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