William Shockley

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American inventor physicist

William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Aliases (2)

William Bradford Shockley ×2
Nobel laureate William Shockley ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American → inventor → physicist →
academicDegree	PhD in physics →
awardReceived	Comstock Prize in Physics → IEEE Medal of Honor → Nobel Prize in Physics → Stuart Ballantine Medal →
causeOfDeath	prostate cancer →
coInvented	transistor →
coInventedWith	John Bardeen → Walter Brattain →
conflictParticipatedIn	World War II →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1910-02-13 →
dateOfDeath	1989-08-12 →
educatedAt	California Institute of Technology → Massachusetts Institute of Technology →
employer	Bell Telephone Laboratories → Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory → Stanford University →
familyName	Shockley →
fieldOfWork	electronics → physics → solid-state physics →
founded	Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory →
fullName	William Bradford Shockley →
givenName	William →
knownFor	Shockley diode equation → Shockley–Queisser limit → co-invention of the transistor → development of solid-state electronics →
memberOf	American Physical Society → National Academy of Sciences →
militaryService	United States Navy →
nobelPrizeCategory	Physics →
nobelPrizeFor	researches on semiconductors and discovery of the transistor effect →
nobelPrizeYear	1956 →
notableStudent	none widely recognized (controversial figure) →
occupation	electrical engineer → physicist → university professor →
placeOfBirth	London, England, United Kingdom →
placeOfDeath	Stanford, California, United States →
positionHeld	director of transistor physics research at Bell Labs → professor of engineering at Stanford University →
residence	Palo Alto, California, United States →

Referenced by (20)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory → Shockley diode equation ("William Bradford Shockley") → Shockley–Queisser limit →	namedAfter
Franklin Medal → IEEE Medal of Honor → John Fritz Medal →	notableRecipient
John Bardeen → Walter Brattain →	coInventorWith
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory ("Nobel laureate William Shockley") →	associatedWith
Fairchild Eight →	associatedWithPerson
John Bardeen →	coInventedWith
Bell Telephone Laboratories →	employed
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory →	foundedBy
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory →	founder
William Shockley ("William Bradford Shockley") →	fullName
Edison Medal →	hasRecipient
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory →	keyPerson
Traitorous Eight →	nicknameGivenBy
Walter Brattain →	sharesNobelPrizeWith
Shockley–Queisser limit →	wasIntroducedBy