The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956
Awarded on: 1956-11-01
"for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Affiliations:
- Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments, Inc. – Mountain View, CA, USA
William Bradford Shockley
Born: 1910-02-13 in London, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: American physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor (1910–1989)
Biography
William Bradford Shockley was an American physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Houser 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".