William Shockley
William Bradford Shockley was an American solid-state physicist. He 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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- Born in
- London
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of Technology
- Awards
- 🏆 Holley Medal🏆 Fellow of the American Physical Society🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 Time Person of the Year🏆 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 John C. Slater
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1910
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