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Shockley died of prostate cancer in 1989 at the age of 79. [78] At the time of his death, he was estranged from most of his friends and family, except his second wife, the former Emmy Lanning (1913–2007). His children reportedly learned of his death by reading his obituary in the newspaper.
Quick Facts. In full: William Bradford Shockley. (Show more) Born: Feb. 13, 1910, London, Eng. (Show more) Died: Aug. 12, 1989, Palo Alto, Calif., U.S. (aged 79) (Show more) Awards And Honors: Nobel Prize (1956) (Show more) Inventions: transistor.
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Died: 12 August 1989, Palo Alto, CA, USA Affiliation at the time of the award: Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA Prize motivation: “for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect”
Apr 24, 2020 · With his wife Emmy by his side, William Shockley died of prostate cancer at age 79 on August 12, 1989 in Stanford, California. He is buried at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto, California. His children remained unaware of their father’s death until they read about it in the newspaper.
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Jun 7, 2006 · His death would have been mourned as a tragically early end to a brilliant career. Yet by 1961 Shockley’s best years were behind him. His inept management had driven away eight top men from ...
Shockley died of cancer on August 12, 1989. Despite the controversial work of his later years, Shockley made a tremendous impact on the scientific world. For his role in the inception of the semiconductor industry, he is widely recognized as one as the most influential people of the 20th century.
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August 14, 1989 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. William B. Shockley, 79, a physicist who helped revolutionize both technology and daily life throughout the world as one of the inventors of the transistor,...
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