Shockley

American  

[shok-lee] / ˈʃɒk li /

noun

1. William Bradford, 1910–1989, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1956.

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Shockley British  

/ ˈʃɒklɪ /

noun

1. William Bradfield. 1910–89, US physicist, born in Britain, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1956) with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain for developing the transistor. He also held controversial views on the connection between race and intelligence

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Shockley Scientific  

/ shŏk′lē /

1. American physicist who, with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, invented the transistor in 1947. For this work, all three shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1956. Shockley went on to make improvements to the transistor that made it easier to manufacture.

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Example Sentences

“I had to decide right then and there,” Shockley would later recall.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

When he went to visit a young physicist at MIT, William Shockley, Kelly chatted with him and then called New York for authorization to make an offer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

“They are getting more aggressive in income management,” Shockley said.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 13, 2025

Floyd W. Shockley, collections manager of the Department of Entomology at the Smithsonian Institute, said the blue-eyed cicada is rare, but just how rare is uncertain.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2024

His fieldworkers actually tested two elementary students who went on to be Nobel laureates—William Shockley and Luis Alvarez—and rejected them both.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell