William Shockley

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/William_Shockley

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gptkbp:birthDate	1910-02-13
gptkbp:birthPlace	gptkb:London,_England
gptkbp:causeOfDeath	prostate cancer
gptkbp:children	gptkb:Alison_Shockley gptkb:Richard_Shockley
gptkbp:controversy	race and intelligence debates views on eugenics
gptkbp:deathDate	1989-08-12
gptkbp:deathPlace	gptkb:Stanford,_California,_USA
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor	gptkb:John_C._Slater
gptkbp:education	gptkb:California_Institute_of_Technology gptkb:Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology
gptkbp:employer	gptkb:Bell_Labs gptkb:Stanford_University
gptkbp:field	semiconductor physics solid-state physics
gptkbp:founded	gptkb:Shockley_Semiconductor_Laboratory
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	William Shockley
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Silicon_Valley
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:John_C._Slater
gptkbp:knownFor	co-inventing the transistor
gptkbp:memberOf	gptkb:American_Physical_Society gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:militaryBranch	gptkb:U.S._Navy
gptkbp:militaryService	gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:nationality	gptkb:American
gptkbp:NobelPrizeSharedWith	gptkb:John_Bardeen gptkb:Walter_Brattain
gptkbp:NobelPrizeYear	gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics 1956
gptkbp:occupation	gptkb:inventor gptkb:physicist gptkb:professor
gptkbp:patent	transistor patent
gptkbp:publishedWork	gptkb:Electrons_and_Holes_in_Semiconductors
gptkbp:rank	Lieutenant Colonel
gptkbp:restingPlace	gptkb:Alta_Mesa_Memorial_Park
gptkbp:signature	William Shockley signature.svg
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