1910 - 1989
William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American inventor, physicist, and eugenicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Shockley has received more than 1,867,288 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). William Shockley is the 147th most popular physicist (up from 148th in 2019), the 454th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 494th in 2019) and the 24th most popular British Physicist.
William Shockley was most famous for his work in the development of the transistor, which is a device that can be used to amplify or switch electronic signals.
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Among physicists, William Shockley ranks 147 out of 717. Before him are Hideki Yukawa, Robert Coleman Richardson, Felix Bloch, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Karl Schwarzschild, and Hans Bethe. After him are Johann Jakob Balmer, Ben Roy Mottelson, Martin Lewis Perl, Rudolf Mössbauer, Hans Geiger, and Peter Grünberg.
1907 - 1981
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 141
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 142
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 143
1742 - 1799
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 144
1873 - 1916
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 145
1906 - 2005
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 146
1910 - 1989
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 147
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 148
1926 - 2022
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 149
1927 - 2014
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 150
1929 - 2011
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 151
1882 - 1945
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 152
1939 - 2018
HPI: 64.92
Rank: 153
Among people born in 1910, William Shockley ranks 23. Before him are Jacques Monod, Eric Berne, Dorothy Hodgkin, Dominique Pire, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Kurt Meyer. After him are Lee Byung-chul, William Hanna, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Ludwig Stumpfegger, Nathuram Godse, and Helenio Herrera. Among people deceased in 1989, William Shockley ranks 27. Before him are Silvana Mangano, Dolores Ibárruri, Sándor Márai, Thomas Bernhard, Hu Yaobang, and Abdullah Yusuf Azzam. After him are John Hicks, Hermann Oberth, Daphne du Maurier, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, John Cassavetes, and Ferdinand Marcos.
1910 - 1976
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 17
1910 - 1970
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 18
1910 - 1994
HPI: 65.99
Rank: 19
1910 - 1969
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 20
1910 - 1988
HPI: 65.90
Rank: 21
1910 - 1961
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 22
1910 - 1989
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 23
1910 - 1987
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 24
1910 - 2001
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 25
1910 - 1995
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 26
1910 - 1945
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 27
1910 - 1949
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 28
1910 - 1997
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 29
1930 - 1989
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 21
1895 - 1989
HPI: 68.59
Rank: 22
1900 - 1989
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 23
1931 - 1989
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 24
1915 - 1989
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 25
1941 - 1989
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 26
1910 - 1989
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 27
1904 - 1989
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 28
1894 - 1989
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 29
1907 - 1989
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 30
1906 - 1989
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 31
1929 - 1989
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 32
1917 - 1989
HPI: 63.73
Rank: 33
Among people born in United Kingdom, William Shockley ranks 454 out of 7,765. Before him are Thomas Harriot (1560), Charles Dance (1946), Morrissey (1959), Sweyn II of Denmark (1020), Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863), and Robert Plant (1948). After him are Mike Oldfield (1953), Tony Scott (1944), James Callaghan (1912), William Kidd (1645), Mary Anning (1799), and Caroline Matilda of Great Britain (1751).
1560 - 1621
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 448
1946 - Present
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 449
1959 - Present
HPI: 65.32
Rank: 450
1020 - 1076
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 451
1863 - 1950
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 452
1948 - Present
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 453
1910 - 1989
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 454
1953 - Present
HPI: 65.23
Rank: 455
1944 - 2012
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 456
1912 - 2005
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 457
1645 - 1701
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 458
1799 - 1847
HPI: 65.13
Rank: 459
1751 - 1775
HPI: 65.08
Rank: 460
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, William Shockley ranks 24. Before him are William Henry Bragg (1862), Henry Moseley (1887), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), George Paget Thomson (1892), C. F. Powell (1903), and Charles Glover Barkla (1877). After him are David Brewster (1781), Charles Wheatstone (1802), Andrew Huxley (1917), John Kendrew (1917), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), and David J. Thouless (1934).
1862 - 1942
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 18
1887 - 1915
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 19
1892 - 1965
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 20
1892 - 1975
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 21
1903 - 1969
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 22
1877 - 1944
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 23
1910 - 1989
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 24
1781 - 1868
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 25
1802 - 1875
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 26
1917 - 2012
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 27
1917 - 1997
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 28
1905 - 1996
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 29
1934 - 2019
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 30