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- Both his father, William Hillman Shockley, and his mother, May Shockley were mining engineers. Having grown up around gold mining in the American West, May Shockley had graduated from Stanford University and became the first woman to serve as a U.S. Deputy Minerals Mining Surveyor.
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William Shockley. William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American inventor, physicist, and eugenicist. He 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 ...
Apr 24, 2020 · William Bradford Shockley Jr. was born on February 13, 1910 in London, England to American citizen parents and raised in the family’s home in Palo Alto, California. Both his father, William Hillman Shockley, and his mother, May Shockley were mining engineers. Having grown up around gold mining in the American West, May Shockley had graduated ...
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May 27, 2021 · William Bradford Shockley, a genius of the kind that appears on the Earth only every few centuries, was born on Sunday, February 13, 1910 at 69 Victoria St., London. His independent and free-thinking American born parents, May Bradford and William Hillman Shockley, married in 1908, and lived in London from 1909 to 1913. May was born as Cora May ...
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Jun 18, 2023 · Soon after Marianne Shockley was declared dead in the early morning hours of Mother's Day, May 12, 2019, Sheriff Bill Massee received that phone call from an ex-girlfriend of Marcus Lillard's who ...
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Feb 1, 2007 · In Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age, Joel Shurkin offers the first biography of this important and troubled physicist. His book is a pageturner, which is rare for a scientific biography, but editing problems at times distract from the book’s engaging story. Relying on a collection of Shockley’s extensive private papers at Stanford University, Shurkin paints a nuanced portrait of the physicist, highlighting his scientific achievements and ...
Jun 8, 2018 · William Bradford Shockley was born in London, England, on February 13, 1910, to William Hillman Shockley, an American mining engineer, and May (Bradford) Shockley, a mineral surveyor. The Shockleys, living in London on a business assignment when William was born, returned to California in 1913. Shockley did not enter elementary school at the ...
Jun 18, 2023 · The Strange Death of Professor Shockley 41:48. On the evening of May 11, 2019, three friends gathered around a pool and a hot tub to enjoy a few drinks and play music.
