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 ...

William Shockley’s Nobel Prize didn’t stop his descent into racial extremism—just as Elon Musk’s tech brilliance doesn’t exempt him from public scrutiny. This article explores how ...

Key points. Fifty years ago, Nobel laureate William Shockley stood out as one of the nation's most prominent eugenicists. Shockley believed that his eugenics served the best interests of those ...

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William Shockley 1910 - 1989. 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 ...

Veteran actor William Shockley (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) is directing the pic as his first feature, having penned the script with Shelley Reid and Hines.Mulroney plays ‘Dallas Garrett’, a ...

Ralph William Shockley, 77, of Berlin passed away Thursday, October 5, 2023, at his home. Born June 12, 1946, in Salisbury, he was the son of the late Sheriff William E. and Alice (Johnson) Shockley.

Nobel Prize winning American physicists (L-R) John Bardeen (1908 – 1991), William Shockley (1910 – 1989) and Walter Brattain (1902 – 1987), who invented transistors, conduct an experiment.