William Shockley
William Bradford Shockley was a British-born
American physicist and inventor of the
transistor with co-inventors
John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, for which all three were awarded the 1956
Nobel Prize in physics. His attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 60s led directly to the creation of
Silicon Valley.
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I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped.
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William Bradford Shockley was a British-born
American physicist and inventor of the
transistor with co-inventors
John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, for which all three were awarded the 1956
Nobel Prize in physics. His attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 60s led directly to the creation of
Silicon Valley.