Physicist William Shockley shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the transistor. He was also involved in the controversial topic of the genetic basis of intelligence. William Shockley was a physicist whose work in the development of the...

William Shockley was an American physicist who became involved in the study of the genetic basis of intelligence. During the 1960s, he argued, in a series of articles and speeches, that people of African descent have genetically inferior mental...

During his youth, Shockley was strongly influenced to pursue a scientific career by his father, a mining engineer, and by his mother, a mineral surveyor, both of whom encouraged his inclination toward science and mathematics. Shockley, furthermore,...

1910-1989 American physicist awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain for developing the transistor at Bell Laboratories (1948). Shockley conceived of the junction transistor shortly thereafter, which Brattain...

William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was a British-born American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956...

SAN FRANCISCO - By helping to invent the transistor, William Shockley did as much to shape the modern world as Louis Pasteur or Madame Curie, colleagues said. But he died with a reputation tarnished by his controversial racial theories. Mr. Shockley, who shared...

William B. Shockley, 79, a physicist who helped revolutionize both technology and daily life throughout the world as one of the inventors of the transistor, for which he shared the Nobel Prize, died Saturday at his home on the Stanford University campus in California....

Seldom are an industry's pioneers around to dispel or confirm legends that have grown up around them. On Thursday night, three co-founders of the company that has come most closely to defining the birth of Silicon Valley -- Fairchild Semiconductor FCS -- did just that.Legends...

Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dubbed the "nerve cells" of the information age are starting to show their age.The devices — whose miniaturization over time set in motion...