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William Shockley
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William Shockley

Inventor · born February 13, 1910 · died 1989

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William Bradford Shockley was an American physicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain.

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  1. ~46Received the Nobel Prize in Physics1956
  2. ~70Received the IEEE Medal of Honor1980

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