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William Shockley:
(1910-1989), American physicist, Nobel laureate, and coinventor of the transistor. His research on semiconductors led to the development of the transistor in 1948. For this research he shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics with his associates John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain.
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