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Popularizer of the transistor
co-inventor of the transistor with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.
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National Academy of Sciences biography (http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/wshockley.html)http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1956/shockley-bio.html (Nobel biography)
http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/shockley (for a good biography)
http://www.pbs.org/transistor/science/info/junctw.html (history of the transistor)
About William Shockley (http://www.nobel-winners.com/Physics/william_bradford_shockley.html)
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