William B. Shockley, Winner of Nobel Prize, Dies

The Washington Post | August 14, 1989| | Copyright

William B. Shockley, 79, a physicist who helped revolutionize both technology and daily life throughout the world as one of the inventors of the transistor, for which he shared the Nobel Prize, died Saturday at his home on the Stanford University campus in California. He had cancer.

Work that Dr. Shockley and his colleagues did in the 1940s ultimately led to the microminiaturized electronic circuitry that has spawned hundreds of new products and made older ones faster, better, smaller and cheaper in areas ranging from data processing to portable stereos.

A semiconductor company he set up in ...

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