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===Career=== | ===Career=== | ||
William became very involved when WWII broke out. He began to work with radar research at Bell Laboratories in New York. He later left in 1942 and became a research director of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Group. As research director, he devised many methods to counter submarine tactics. On October 17, 1946, William was rewarded the Medal of Merit by the Secretary of War Robert Patterson. | |||
From 1954 to 1955, he was research and deputy director of the Weapons System Evaluation Group in the Defense Department. His works was mainly centered towards energy bands in solids, disorder and order in alloys, vacuum tubes, transistors, and so on. | |||
===Family Life=== | ===Family Life=== | ||
Shockley was married twice. First, with Jean (née Bailey), who bore three children, and second with Emmy Lanning. | |||
===Death=== | ===Death=== | ||
Wiliam died of prostate cancer in 1989. Sadly, his death was not known by family members (excluding his wife at the time, Emmy) until printed in media. | |||
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Early Life
William B. Shockley was born in London, England, on February 13th, 1910. His father, William Hillman Shockley, who was a mining engineer, was married to Mary (née Bradford), who was a US deputy mining surveyor. His family moved to the United States in 1913, where William B. Shockley earned his B.Sc. degree at California Institute of Technology in 1932. He later earned his Ph.D. in 1936 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and submitted a thesis called Electronic Bands in Sodium Chloride. Later that year, William joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories, working with a group that was lead by Dr. C.J. Davisson. While working for Bell Laboratories, he published many works on solid state physics. He also got his first patent in 1938 for "Electron Discharge Device" (electron multipliers).
Career
William became very involved when WWII broke out. He began to work with radar research at Bell Laboratories in New York. He later left in 1942 and became a research director of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Group. As research director, he devised many methods to counter submarine tactics. On October 17, 1946, William was rewarded the Medal of Merit by the Secretary of War Robert Patterson. From 1954 to 1955, he was research and deputy director of the Weapons System Evaluation Group in the Defense Department. His works was mainly centered towards energy bands in solids, disorder and order in alloys, vacuum tubes, transistors, and so on.
Family Life
Shockley was married twice. First, with Jean (née Bailey), who bore three children, and second with Emmy Lanning.
Death
Wiliam died of prostate cancer in 1989. Sadly, his death was not known by family members (excluding his wife at the time, Emmy) until printed in media.
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