#589 Overall Influence
William Shockley
American physicist and inventor
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Why is this person notable and influential?From Wikipedia
William Bradford Shockley Jr. was an American physicist and inventor. Shockley was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for "their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect".
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Schools
What schools is this person affiliated with?Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
view profileCalifornia Institute of Technology
Private research university located in Pasadena, California
view profileStanford University
Private research university located in Stanford, California, United States
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How’s this person influential?#198 World Rank
Physics
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