William Shockley (1910-1989) - American physicist - Signed FDC + Sketch - Nobel

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William Shockley (1910-1989
)
American physicist and inventor. 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 semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect".
Partly as a result of Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s, California's Silicon Valley became a hotbed of electronics innovation.
In his later life, while a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University and afterward, Shockley became widely known for his extreme views on race and his advocacy of eugenics
.
Rare - First Day Cover (FDC) signed in 1978 in Galesburg.
+ Sketch.
+ Photo 17.5x17.5 cm (recent print).
Size
: 9x16.5 cm.
Condition
: see scans please
.
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