William Shockley: 1910-1989

Shockley is noted for his early work in the development of the transistor – an invention that has had a profound effect on modern society. He collaborated with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain in their work on the point-contact transistor (1947). The following year Shockley developed the junction transistor. Shockley shared the 1970 Nobel Prize for physics with Bardeen and Brattain.