William Shockley
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1956for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect
- Citizenship
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United States 
United Kingdom - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 2/13/1910
- place of birth
- London
- date of death
- 8/12/1989
- place of death
- Stanford
- Lived
- 79 years
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- educated at
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- California Institute of Technology
- academic degree: Bachelor of Science
- end time: 1932
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- end time: 1936
- California Institute of Technology
- member of
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- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 1951
- American Physical Society
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- National Academy of Sciences
- employer
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- Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
- Bell Labs
- Stanford University
- field of work
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- semiconductor physics
- occupation
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- inventor
- physicist
- university teacher