With William Shockley's difficult managerial style, working at Shockley Semiconductor became increasingly difficult for the researchers there. In May of 1957, just over a year after the company ...

William Shockley and his team at Bell Laboratories complete the first successful amplifying semiconductor, the transistor. The transistor was a major advance and paved the way for the invention of ...

Also in 1939, William Hewlett and Dave Packard founded ... In 1956, Shockley left Bell and founded his own company — Shockley Semiconductor Labs. It was the first company to make transistors ...

William Shockley was born in London to American parents who were ... In 1947, with colleagues John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, he made the first successful amplifying semiconductor device. They ...