William Shockley (nonfiction)

William Shockley.

William Bradford Shockley Jr. (/ˈʃɑːkli/; February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) 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.

Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s led to California's "Silicon Valley" becoming a hotbed of electronics innovation.

In his later life, Shockley was a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, and became a proponent of eugenics.

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)
• Walter Houser Brattain (nonfiction)

External links:

• William Shockley @ Wikipedia