Who Was William Shockley? Shockley was an influential physicist. He won a 1956 Nobel Prize for his work on transistors, and the employees at his lab went on to found Fairchild Semiconductors.

William Bradford Shockley clearly was one of the brightest scientists of the 20th century, yet he lived a life of noisy desperation. He was a modern hero taken from one of the ancient Greek ...

Your issue about California and the Nobel Prizes was fascinating, particularly the article about the triumphs and tragedies of William Shockley ("The Twisted Legacy of William Shockley," by Michael A.

William Shockley was born in London to American parents who were in England for several years on business. His father was a mining engineer and his mother a federal deputy surveyor of mineral lands.

William Shockley, who died Saturday, leaves a strangely mixed legacy of science and supposition, of enormous contribution to human progress and ugly disservice to humanity. In the last decades of ...

How dishonest was it for Stanford to leave the tarnished name of physicist William Shockley off its list of Nobel laureates in the full-page advertisement that appeared Dec. 2?

William Shockley left Bell Labs in New Jersey in 1956 — the same year he was a co-recipient of a Nobel Prize in Physics for creating the transistor — for Mountain View to set up a lab to ...

This is where William Shockley set up shop in 1956, bringing with him the transistor he helped invent at Bell Labs in New Jersey. While some people argue that the Palo Alto garage where William ...

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