William Bradford Shockley (1910-1989)

Awarded the Prize “for his researches on semiconductors their discovery of the transistor effect.”

British-American physicist. Shockley was born in London on February 13,1910. In 1913, he went to the United States with his parents. He was educated at the California Institute of Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1936, joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories. During the World War II he was Research Director of the Anti-submarine Warfare Operations Research Group. In 1963 he was appointed as Professor at Stanford University. He held visiting lectureships at Princeton University, the California Institute of Technology. Shockley died in Palo Alto on August 12, 1989.