Shockley

[shok-lee]

noun

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

Shockley

/ 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

Shockley

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.

Example Sentences

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.

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For a brief several weeks, some residents of central Illinois will be able to hear all seven species of cicada in a single day, according to Shockley.

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“That was a very wealthy neighborhood. A lot of great things were taken down,” said Dave Shockley, executive director of the Spokane Preservation Advocates.

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“That cicada train would reach to the moon and back 33 times,” Dr. Shockley said.

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“Nobody alive today will see it happen again,” said Floyd W. Shockley, the chair of the Entomology Collections Committee at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

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