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William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. Shockley was the manager of a research group that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists invented the point contact transistor in 1947 and were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s led to California's "Silicon Valley" becoming a hotbed of electronics innovation. In his later life, Shockley was a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University and became a proponent of eugenics.
Shockley was born in London, England, to American parents, and raised in his family's hometown of Palo Alto, California, from age three. His father, William Hillman Shockley, was a mining engineer who speculated in mines for a living, and spoke eight languages. His mother, Mary (née Bradford), grew up in the American West, graduated from Stanford University, and became the first female US Deputy mining surveyor.
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This debate takes place on the black journal hosted by Tony Brown 1974
In this 1969 video, Jane Morgan interviews William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor. The interview was part of a series done for the Palo Alto 75th anniversary celebrations. Thanks to the Palo Alto Historical Association.
From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013. The views and ideas expressed in these videos are not necessarily shared by the University of California, or by the UCLA Communication Studies Department.
Shockley discusses the problem of dysgenics and his solution for it with an idiotic Afrocentrist. Shockley would have a heart attack from modern birth rates, honestly. Warning: Extremely rage inducing video.
William Shockley Official Demo Reel (2013)
See more from the AT&T; Archives at http://techchannel.att.com/archives Bonus Edition introduction by George Kupczak of the AT&T; Archives and History Center In the late 1940s, Bell Laboratories scientists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invented the transistor, the first solid-state amplifier or switch, and in doing so laid the foundation for all modern electronics and circuitry. The three shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 for the achievement. It may be the most important invention of the 20th century. This 1965 film shows footage of them reunited/recreating their 1940s lab time to show how it was done, but in real life they had parted. Bardeen had left the labs in 1951 for the U. of IL; Shockley in 1956 to run a semiconductor company in California (laying the...
Dr. William Shockley talking about his views on race, IQ and dysgenics.
Entertainment Tonight interviews William Shockley about his role as Hank on DR. QUINN, MEDICINE WOMAN, and talks to him about his music and his art.