William Shockley

William Bradford Shockley was a British-born American United States

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 physicist Physicist

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 and inventor of the transistor Transistor

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 with co-inventors John Bardeen John Bardeen

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 and Walter Houser Brattain, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics Nobel Prize in Physics

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. His attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 60s led directly to the creation of Silicon Valley Silicon Valley

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1910   Born 1951   William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain announce the invention the junction transistor. 1989   Died

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William Bradford Shockley was a British-born American United States

The United States of America, also known as the United States, the U.S., the U.S.A., a... 

 physicist Physicist

A physicist is a scientist [i] who studies or practices physics [i]. ... 

 and inventor of the transistor Transistor

The transistor is a three terminal solid state [i] semiconductor device [i] that can be use ... 

 with co-inventors John Bardeen John Bardeen

John Bardeen was an American [i] physicist [i].... 

 and Walter Houser Brattain, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics Nobel Prize in Physics

List of Nobel Prize [i] laureates in Physics [i] from 1901 [i] to the present day. 177 awards have been given... 

. His attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 60s led directly to the creation of Silicon Valley Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is the southern part [i] of the San Francisco Bay Area [i] in Northern [i] ... 

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