William Bradford Shockley
1910-1989
American physicist awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain for developing the transistor at Bell Laboratories (1948). Shockley...
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Physicist William Shockley (1910-1989) shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the transistor. He was also involved in the controversial topic of the genetic basis of intelligence.William...
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Physicist William Shockley shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the transistor. He was also involved in the controversial topic of the genetic basis of intelligence. William Shockley w...
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William Shockley was a physicist whose work in the development of the transistor led to a Nobel Prize. By the late 1950s, his company, the Shockley Transistor Corporation, was part of a rapidly growin...
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William Shockley was an American physicist who became involved in the study of the genetic basis of intelligence. During the 1960s, he argued, in a series of articles and speeches, that people of Afri...
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During his youth, Shockley was strongly influenced to pursue a scientific career by his father, a mining engineer, and by his mother, a mineral surveyor, both of whom encouraged his inclination toward...
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