| William Shockley  AKA William Bradford Shockley
Born: 13-Feb-1910
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 12-Aug-1989
Location of death: Stanford, CA
Cause of death: Cancer - Prostate
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Co-Inventor of the transistor Military service: Anti-submarine Warfare Operations Research Group (WWII) Father: William Hillman Shockley (mining engineer)
Mother: Mary Bradford (mineral surveyor)
Wife: Jean Bailey (div., three children)
Wife: Emmy Lanning (until his death, d. 2007)
High School: Hollywood High School, Hollywood, CA
University: BS, California Institute of Technology (1932)
University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University: PhD, Harvard University (1936)
Teacher: Lecturer, Princeton University (1946)
Teacher: Lecturer, California Institute of Technology (1954)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1956 (with John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain)
IEEE Medal of Honor 1980
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Risk Factors: Prostate Cancer
Author of books:
Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors (1950)
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