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William Shockley
BornWilliam Bradford Shockley Jr.
13 Februar 1910(1910-02-13)
Greater Lunnon, Ingland,
Unitit Kinrick
Dee'd12 August 1989(1989-08-12) (aged 79)
Stanford, Californie, Unitit States
NaitionalityAmerican
Alma mater
Kent for
Awairds
Scientific career
Institutions
Doctoral advisorJohn C. Slater

William Bradford Shockley Jr. (/ˈʃɑːkli/; Februar 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) wis an American physicist an inventor. Shockley wis the manager o a resairch group at Bell Labs that includit John Bardeen an Walter Brattain. The three scientists inventit the pynt-contact transistor in 1947 an war jyntly awairdit the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.