"One of the century's most important scientists" according to Time Magazine Shockley was the leader of the team that created the transistor, the seminal invention of the century. There are those ...

Bill Shockley brought the transistor to a pasture in Palo Alto, but he didn’t land there by chance. There was already a plot afoot which had nothing to do with silicon, and it had already been a ...

At Bell Labs, a young, brilliant theoretician, Bill Shockley ... Spurred on by this first discovery, Shockley developed an improved transistor design—the "junction" transistor.