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Date of Birth
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13-February-1910
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Place of Birth
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London
(England, United Kingdom, Great Britain)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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William Bradford Shockley, William Bradford Shockley Jr.
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Profession
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Inventor, Physicist, Scientist, Mountaineer
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William Bradford Shockley Jr. was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were 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 at Stanford and became a staunch advocate of eugenics.
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