William Shockley
William Shockley
William Bradford Shockley Jr.was an American physicist and inventor. Shockley was the manager of a research group that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists invented the point-contact transistor in 1947 and were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth13 February 1910
CountryUnited States of America
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