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William Bradford Shockley

American physicist and inventor (1910–1989)

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  • Scientists rank#144
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Lived 1910–1989, aged 79United Kingdom
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    1910–1989
    Aged 79
  • Awards
    10
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Updated 2026-06-21

William Bradford Shockley was an American physicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect."

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Born
February 13, 1910
Died
August 12, 1989
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