William Shockley was born in London to American parents who were in England for several years on business. His father was a mining engineer and his mother a federal deputy surveyor of mineral lands.

Your issue about California and the Nobel Prizes was fascinating, particularly the article about the triumphs and tragedies of William Shockley (“The Twisted Legacy of William Shockley,” by Michael A.

Jane Seymour and her Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman costars have kept in touch. The actress, 70, took to Instagram on Monday to share two sweet snaps of herself with former Dr. Quinn castmates William ...

As a consultant during World War II, he estimated that an American invasion of Japan would produce such high casualties that US leaders instead decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ...

Pursuing scientific inquiry into the applications of solid-state physics, Bell Laboratories Physicist William Shockley played a major role in the invention of the junction transistor, shared a 1956 ...

William Bradford Shockley clearly was one of the brightest scientists of the 20th century, yet he lived a life of noisy desperation. He was a modern hero taken from one of the ancient Greek tragedies, ...

How dishonest was it for Stanford to leave the tarnished name of physicist William Shockley off its list of Nobel laureates in the full-page advertisement that appeared Dec. 2? More revisionism from ...

William L. Shockley, 87, passed away suddenly from heart failure, March 1, 2020. William (Bill) was born April 16, 1932, in Kokomo, IN. He was the widower of Joyce (Stephens) Shockley, and the son of ...