William Shockley - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1956
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William Shockley

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1956
for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect
Together with: John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain
Citizenship
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Languages
English
date of birth
2/13/1910
place of birth
London
date of death
8/12/1989
place of death
Stanford
Lived
79 years

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occupation
  • university teacher
  • physicist
  • inventor
field of work
  • semiconductor physics
educated at
  • California Institute of Technology
    • academic degree: Bachelor of Science
    • end time: 1932
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
    • end time: 1936
employer
  • Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
  • Bell Labs
  • Stanford University
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1951
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Physical Society
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