William Shockley Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. Shockley was the manager of a research group that included John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, the duo which invented the transistor. For this feat, all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s led to California's "Silicon Valley" becoming a hotbed of electronics innovation. In his later life, Shockley was a professor at Stanford and became a staunch advocate of eugenics.
Nobel Prize in Physics, IEEE Medal of Honor, Comstock Prize in Physics
Movies
Showgirls, RoboCop, The Gundown, Ambush at Dark Canyon, Treasure Raiders, Stolen Women: Captured Hearts, A Country Christmas, Dream Lover, Last Will, Girl in the Cadillac, Welcome to Paradise, Dug Up, Finding Harmony, Howling V: The Rebirth, Cat City, The Joyriders, Born Wild, Suckers, Madison, Reap...
TV Shows
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Good & Evil
Star Sign
Virgo
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Fact
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He owns a restaurant in Austin, Texas called "Cafe Josie", located at 1200 B W. 6th Street.
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Attended University of Texas but got his Bachelor's Degree in Political Science at Texas Tech University.
$1.7 Million
