William Shockley

Also known as William Bradford Shockley

American physicist and inventor (1910–1989)

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William Shockley was an American physicist and inventor who lived from 1910 to 1989. While the context provided doesn't specify his major achievements, he is historically significant as a figure in 20th-century science and technology.

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Born: 1910
Works: 7

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Mekanikkusu
Imperfections in nearly perfect crystals
Electrons and holes in semi-conductors
Electrons and holes in semiconductors
Mechanics

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5 total works indexed

VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,500x
Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,866x
Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 38,975x
QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,722x
Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,525x

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Quotes

“My research leads me inescapably to the opinion that the major cause of the American Negro's intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racial genetic in origin and thus not remediable to a major degree by practical improvements in environment.”
“I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching & does not mean poor training, but only a strong-headedness.”
“Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.”
“If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.”

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Image: William Shockley, Stanford University.jpg

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P12749: Q153740
Commons category: William Shockley
date of birth: 1910-02-13
date of death: 1989-08-12
Erdős number: 5
Commons Creator page: William Shockley
name in native language: William Bradford Shockley

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William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect."

Partly as a result of Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s, California's Silicon Valley became a hotbed of electronics innovation. He recruited brilliant employees, but quickly alienated them with his autocratic and erratic management; they left and founded major companies in the industry.