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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Physics (209) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1950s (72) 1956 (9) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1910s (117) 1910 (10) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, western (207) United Kingdom (101) London (16) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1980s (66) 1989 (8) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death North America (223) United States (214) Western states (63) California (53) Stanford (4) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name S-Z (143) W (48) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name S-Z (212) S (103) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name S-Z (69) W (37) William (20) 23. Religion 23. Religion Irreligion group (86) Atheism (75) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 40 - 49 (140) 47 (22) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Physical Scientists (333) Astronomers and Physicists (222) Physicists (206) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens North America (328) United States (307) 38. Worked for Corporation 38. Worked for Corporation North America (23) United States (23) Western states (2) California (2) Mountain View (2) Beckman Instruments Inc., Semiconductor Laboratory (1) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University North America (529) United States (521) Middle Atlantic states (178) New Jersey (70) Princeton (65) Princeton University (65) Short-term academic staff (29) Northeastern states (374) Massachusetts (226) Cambridge (217) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (93) Alumni (38) New York (216) New York City (168) Columbia University (96) Short-term academic staff (38) Western states (262) California (253) Pasadena (73) California Institute of Technology (73) Alumni (22) Short-term academic staff (40) Stanford (83) Stanford University (83) Long-term academic staff (46) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships A-D (656) A (635) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (531) American Physical Society (113) E-P (571) N (352) National Academy of Sciences (334) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards C-D (404) C (272) Comstock Prize in Physics (10) E-F (439) F (394) Fellow of the American Physical Society (107) G-H (389) H (196) Holley Medal (4) I-J (268) I (80) IEEE Medal of Honor (11) IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (9) M-N (333) N (205) National Inventor Hall of Fame (33) O-P (364) O (205) Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (17) Q-Z (398) W (157) Wilhelm Exner Medal (19) complete name: William Bradford Shockley nobel prize: physics award year: 1956 together with: John Bardeen together with: Walter Houser Brattain prize share: Prize share: 1/3 rational: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 was awarded jointly to William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: William family name: Shockley occupation: physicist occupation: inventor occupation: university teacher field of work: semiconductor physics work location: Bell Labs, Murray Hill, United States of America description: William Bradford Shockley was an American physicist and inventor. Shockley was the manager of a research group that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists invented the point-contact transistor in 1947 and were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s led to California's "Silicon Valley" becoming a hotbed of electronics innovation. In his later life, Shockley was a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University and became a proponent of eugenics. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1956/summary/> date birth: 1910 date death: 1989 usual name: William Shockley
