William Shockley

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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Who was born first?

• William Shockley and Momofuku Ando were born the same year
• William Shockley and Christopher Cockerell were born the same year
• William Shockley and Konrad Zuse were born the same year
• William Shockley was born 1 year before Klara Dan von Neumann
• William Shockley was born 1 year before Luis Walter Alvarez

Timeline

1. Christopher CockerellJune 4, 1910 – June 1, 1999
2. Konrad ZuseJune 22, 1910 – December 18, 1995
3. Momofuku AndoMarch 5, 1910 – January 5, 2007
4. William Shockley (this page)February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989
5. Klara Dan von NeumannAugust 18, 1911 – November 10, 1963
6. Luis Walter AlvarezJune 13, 1911 – September 1, 1988

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