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William Shockley

London February 13, 1910 – Stanford Aug. 12, 1989

 


    
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He studied at the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where also played teacher.  In 1936 it passed the laboratories of Bell Telephone, where he dedicated himself to the study of the properties of semiconductors with a view to be able to get through this, the effect of amplification of electricity. Bardeen, actually managed to achieve this goal with the construction of the device known today as transistors, in which the shrewd provision of donor impurities and receptor electron allowed easily manage the properties of semiconductors. For a prototype, said transistor to the point of contact, Shockley and colleagues did follow as perfected a junction transistor, to be innumerable and fundamental applications. Shockley had several awards in 1956 with Bardeen shared the Nobel Prize for Physics thanks precisely , his latest invention.  


  


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US Patent 2502488 Semiconductor amplifier April 1950
 

W. Shockely Transistor technology  evokes new physics -Noble Lecture 11 décembre 1956