William Shockley
- Born: February 13, 1910 (London, England, United Kingdom)
- Died: August 12, 1989 (Stanford, California)
Education
- 1932: BSc, California Institute of Technology
- 1936: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Physics)
Major Positions
- 1936–1954: Bell Laboratories, Member, Technical Staff
- 1954–1955: United States Department of Defense, Director of Research, Weapons Systems Evaluation Group
- 1955–1958: Beckman Instruments, Inc., Research Physicist
- 1958–1960: Shockley Transistor Corporation, President
- 1960–1963: Clevite Corporation, Director, Transistor Division
- 1963–1974: Stanford University, Alexander M. Poniatoff Professor of Engineering Science
- 1974–1989: Stanford University, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering
Other Positions
- 1942–1944: United States Navy, Director of Research, Antisubmarine Warfare Operations Research Group
- 1944–1945: United States Department of War, Expert Consultant to the Secretary of War
- 1946–1946: Princeton University, Lecturer in Physcis
- 1954–1954: California Institute of Technology, Visiting Professor
Selected Part-Time Positions
- 1951–1989: Member, Science Advisory Panel, United States Army
- 1963–1975: Executive Consultant, Bell Laboratories
Selected Awards and Honors
- 1951: National Academy of Sciences, Member
- 1953: American Physical Society, Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
- 1956: Nobel Prize in Physics
Resources on the Web
Published Resources
John L. Moll, "William Bradford Shockley: 1910-1989", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences
Michael O'Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, Crystal Fire: The Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1997)
Joel N. Shurkin, Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age (New York: Macmillan, 2006)
