(born Feb. 10, 1902, Amoy, China—died Oct. 13, 1987, Seattle, Wash., U.S.) U.S. scientist.
His American parents brought him to the U.S. soon after his birth. After earning a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, he became a researcher at Bell Laboratories in 1929. With John Bardeen and William B. Shockley, he shared the 1956 Nobel Prize for Physics for the development of the transistor and for investigation of the properties of semiconductors.
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