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William Shockley
February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989
American physicist (1910–1989)
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William Bradford Shockley was an American 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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- Birthday · February 13
- Anniversary · August 12
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