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  1. William Shockley - Wikipedia

    William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American applied physicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen …

  2. William B. Shockley | Nobel Prize, semiconductor, transistor

    Oct 13, 2025 · After the war, Shockley returned to Bell Telephone as director of its research program on solid-state physics. Working with Bardeen and Brattain, he resumed his attempts …

  3. William B. Shockley – Biographical - NobelPrize.org

    In addition to numerous articles in scientific and technical journals, Shockley has written Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors (1950) and has edited Imperfections of Nearly Perfect Crystals …

  4. William Shockley - Southern Poverty Law Center

    William Shockley’s importance in the development of modern electronics cannot be overstated. While working at Bell Labs during the 1940s and 50s, Shockley led the team that invented the …

  5. Biography of William Shockley - ThoughtCo

    Apr 24, 2020 · William Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910–August 12, 1989) was an American physicist, engineer, and inventor who led the research team credited with developing the …

  6. William Shockley - Magnet Academy - National MagLab

    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 …

  7. William Bradford Shockley, February 13, 1910 August 12, 1989

    Shockley started the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in the Stanford industrial park in 1955 with help from the Beckman Instruments Company. This was the first semiconductor company …

  8. Shockley was a racist and eugenicist | Science

    Nov 17, 2022 · Appallingly, Shockley devoted the latter part of his life to promoting racist views, arguing that higher IQs among Blacks were correlated with higher extents of Caucasian …

  9. Shockley started the Shockley Semiconductor Laborato-ries in the Stanford industrial park in 1955 with help from the Beckman Instruments Company. This was the first semi-conductor …

  10. William Shockley (Physicist) - On This Day

    Biography: Nobel recipient and one of the founding fathers of Silicon Valley, Shockley is remembered as a controversial figure owing to his views on the genetic differences between …