William Bradford Shockley
American physicist and inventor (1910-1989) · United Kingdom · Scientists · Died at 79
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Something wrong?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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