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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.
William Bradford Shockley (ur. 13 lutego 1910 w Londynie; zm. 12 sierpnia 1989 w Stanford) – amerykański fizyk, współwynalazca tranzystora (razem z Johnem Bardeenem i Walterem Brattainem); trójka uczonych została uhonorowana w roku 1956 Nagrodą Nobla w dziedzinie fizyki.
24 kwi 2020 · Z żoną Emmy u boku William Shockley zmarł na raka prostaty w wieku 79 lat 12 sierpnia 1989 roku w Stanford w Kalifornii. Został pochowany w Alta Mesa Memorial Park w Palo Alto w Kalifornii. Jego dzieci nie wiedziały o śmierci ojca, dopóki nie przeczytały o tym w gazecie.
7 cze 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.
William B. Shockley Biographical W illiam Shockley was born in London, England, on 13th February, 1910, the son of William Hillman Shockley, a mining engineer born in Massachusetts and his wife, Mary ( née Bradford) who had also been engaged in mining, being a deputy mineral surveyor in Nevada.
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 ...
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”
