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William Shockley

1910 - 1989

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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

Among physicists, William Shockley ranks 147 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, William Shockley ranks 23Before 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 27Before 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.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Shockley ranks 454 out of 7,765Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, William Shockley ranks 24Before 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).