Shockley
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Shockley is the family name of
It can also refer to
- William ShockleyWilliam ShockleyWilliam Bradford Shockley Jr. was an 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 Nobel Prize in Physics.Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s...
— Nobel Prize–winning physicist - D.J. Shockley — Atlanta Falcons football quarterback
It can also refer to
- Detective Ben Shockley, the protagonist of the 1977 movie The Gauntlet
- the Shockley Semiconductor LaboratoryShockley Semiconductor LaboratoryShockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the primary lab of the Shockley Transistor Company, was the first company to work on silicon semiconductor devices in what came to be known as Silicon Valley. It was purchased by Clevite in 1960, and officially closed shortly after being sold to ITT in 1968...