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Magnet Academy: William Shockley

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Find out about William Bradford Shockley, who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the first point-contact transistor and the invention of the more advanced junction transistor. His later research focused on developing silicon-based semiconductor devices, making him the first to introduce silicon into the area now known as Silicon Valley.

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