Shockley
[shok-lee]
- William Bradford,1910–1989, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1956.
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"All under thirty, I am sorry to say," and this from Shockley too.
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Shockley and Chris and the goat crew put at it like black ants.
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First he said Callahan wouldn't let him, but Shockley "guessed yes."
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He tried to talk, and only stammered a lingo of switch-pidgin and the name of Shockley.
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Reynolds set down his glass, and Shockley waited; it was the cowboy who hesitated.
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Shockley
- 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
[shŏk′lē]
- 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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