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William Shockley, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1989)
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William Shockley
American physicist and engineer (1910–1989)
William Bradford Shockley was an American solid-state physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics "for…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nobel Prize in Physics
One of five prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
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