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William Shockley. William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American inventor, physicist, and eugenicist. 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 ...
Childhood & Early Life. William Bradford Shockley Jr. was born on February 13, 1910, in London, England. His father, William Hillman Shockley was a mining engineer and his mother, Mary Bradford was the first female US Deputy mining surveyor. His parents were American and he grew up in Palo Alto, California from age 3.
Oddly, Shockley’s high school had two different names while he was there. In 1954, he played football for Tredyffrin-Easttown; its nickname was the Bulldogs. But in 1955 as a senior, Shockley suited up for Conestoga with the nickname of Pioneers. As a junior, Shockley was part of an excellent trio of running backs. That team went 6-2 and won a
William B. Shockley (born Feb. 13, 1910, London, Eng.—died Aug. 12, 1989, Palo Alto, Calif., U.S.) was an American engineer and teacher, cowinner (with John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for their development of the transistor, a device that largely replaced the bulkier and less-efficient vacuum tube and ushered in the age of microminiature electronics.
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William B. Shockley. (1910–89). U.S. engineer and teacher William Shockley was a cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956. He helped develop, together with John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain, the transistor. This device replaced the bigger and less-efficient vacuum tube and ushered in the age of microminiature electronics.
The family returned to the United States in 1913 and William Jr. was educated in California, taking his B.Sc. degree at the California Institute of Technology in 1932. He studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology under Professor J.C. Slater and obtained his Ph.D. in 1936, submitting a thesis on the energy band structure of sodium chloride.
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Biography of William Shockley William Bradford Shockley Jr. was an American physicist and inventor, born in London, England, on February 14, 1910. His parents, William Hillman Shockley and Mary Bradford, were American citizens. At the age of three, Shockley moved with his family to Palo Alto, California, where he spent his childhood.
