William B Shockley Biography

William B Shockley biography

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NAME: William Bradford Shockley
OCCUPATION: Physicist
BIRTH DATE: February 13, 1910
DEATH DATE: August 12, 1989
EDUCATION: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), MIT

PLACE OF BIRTH: London, England
PLACE OF DEATH: Palo Alto, California

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William Shockley was an engineer and co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 for his development of the transistor.

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William Shockley joined Bell Telephone in 1936 and experimented with semiconductors, leading to the invention and development of the transistor. He and his colleagues invented the point-contact transistor in 1947 and a more effective device, the junction transistor, in 1948. The device largely replaced the bulkier and less-efficient vacuum tube and ushered in the age of microminiature electronics.