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William Shockley

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Physicist
Died
Aug 12, 1989
Zodiac
Aquarius
Born in
LondonEngland
About
American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor who ushered in the electronics revolution and directly led to the electronics boom in Silicon Valley. He shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work.
Family
He was born in London, England, his father William Hillman Shockley a mining engineer.

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