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William Shockley
Born	William Bradford Shockley Jr. 13 Februar 1910 ( 1910-02-13 ) Greater Lunnon , Ingland , Unitit Kinrick
Dee'd	12 August 1989 (1989-08-12) (aged 79) Stanford, Californie , Unitit States
Naitionality	American
Alma mater	MIT Caltech
Kent for	Pynt-contact transistor an BJT Shockley diode equation Read-Shockley equation Shockley diode Shockley-Ramo theorem Haynes-Shockley experiment Shockley-Queisser leemit
Awairds	Nobel Prize in Physics (1956) Comstock Prize in Physics (1953) Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1953) Wilheln Exner Medal (1963) IEEE Medal o Honour (1980)
Scientific career
Institutions	Bell Labs Shockley Semiconductor Stanford Varsity
Doctoral advisor	John C. Slater

William Bradford Shockley Jr. ( / ? ? ?ː k l i / ; 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.