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William Shockley
William Bradford Shockley was an American physicist. 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 their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect."
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science · American physicist (1910–1989) · physicist · inventor · university teacher · also William Shockley, William Bradford Shockley, Shockley
Born 13 February 1910 · Died 12 August 1989 · Q163415
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1989· 6 entries
In Stanford, California, at the age of 79
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Died 1989-08-12.
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Shockley died of prostate cancer on August 12, 1989, in Stanford, California, at the age of 79.
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“Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.”
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“My research leads me inescapably to the opinion that the major cause of the American Negro's intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racial genetic in origin and thus not remediable to a major degree by practical improvements in environment.”
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“If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.”
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1981· 1 entry
Shockley filed a libel suit against the Atlanta Constitution after a science writer, Roger Witherspoon, compared Shockley's advocacy of a voluntary sterilization program to Nazi human experimentation
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1980· 1 entry
Won IEEE Medal of Honor (1980).
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1979· 1 entry
Shockley 1980, "Sperm Banks and Dark-Ages Dogmatism", position paper presented by Shockley in a lecture to the Rotary Club of Chico, California, April 16, 1980
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1974· 3 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1974).
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“My research leads me inescapably to the opinion that the major cause of the American Negro”
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Shockley argued, "My research leads me inescapably to the opinion that the major cause of the American Negro's intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and, thus, not remediable to a
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1973· 2 entries
Edgar Epps wrote that "I am pleased that Professor Shockley is not an Aryan supremacist, but I would remind him that a theory espousing hereditary superiority of Orientals or Jews is just as racist in nature as the Aryan
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University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee professor Edgar G
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1970· 1 entry
Shockley listed former senator of Alaska Ernest Gruening as a director of FREED
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1968· 1 entry
Shockley 1968, "Ten Point Position Statement on Human Quality Problems", revised by Shockley from a talk which he presented on "Human Quality Problems and Research Taboos"
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1963· 3 entries
Won Holley Medal (1963).
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Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (1963).
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A position he held until his retirement in 1975
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1960· 1 entry
Then sold to ITT in 1968, and shortly after, officially closed
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1956· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1956).
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Shockley started Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View, California, which was close to his elderly mother in Palo Alto, California
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1953· 3 entries
Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1953).
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Awarded Comstock Prize in Physics (1953).
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His 1953 route known as "Shockley's Ceiling", is one of the classic climbing routes in the area.
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award (1952).
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1945· 1 entry
Bell Labs formed a solid-state physics group, led by Shockley and chemist Stanley Morgan, which included John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, physicist Gerald Pearson, chemist Robert Gibney, electronics expert Hilbert Moore, a
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1944· 1 entry
Organized a training program for B-29 bomber pilots to use new radar bomb sights
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1942· 1 entry
Shockley pioneered applied work on Delay-line memory, which was 1/100th the cost of competing electronic memory of vacuum tube technology and approximately as rapid
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1938· 1 entry
Received his first patent, "Electron Discharge Device", on electron multipliers
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1936· 3 entries
Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (1936).
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And focused on hiring solid-state physicists
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With a thesis on the electronic band structure of sodium chloride
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1932· 1 entry
Studied at California Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Science (1932).
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1930· 1 entry
By Julius Lilienfeld, who filed his MESFET-like patent in Canada on October 22, 1925
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1910· 2 entries
In London to American parents, and was raised in the family's hometown of Palo Alto, California, from the age of three
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Born 1910-02-13.
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