William Shockley

William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) American physicist, eugenicist and co-inventor of the transistor with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. His attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 60s led directly to the creation of Silicon Valley. In his later life, Shockley was a "superb" professor at Stanford.http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/shockley/shockley3.html

External links

• National Academy of Sciences biography
• http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1956/shockley-bio.html (Nobel biography)
• http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/shockley (for a good biography)
• http://www.pbs.org/transistor/science/info/junctw.html (history of the transistor)
• About William Shockley
• Shockley and Bardeen-Brattain patent disputes
• Series of Slate.com articles on the controversial sperm bank
• "Darwin's Engineer", by David Plotz, Los Angeles Times Magazine, June 5, 2005 (A biography of Robert Klark Graham, with details of Shockley's involvement in the Repository for Germinal Choice)
• their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.
• http://www.thegeniusfactory.net/