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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956
William B. Shockley, John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956

William Bradford Shockley

William Bradford Shockley

John Bardeen

John Bardeen

Walter Houser Brattain

Walter Houser Brattain

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956 was awarded jointly to William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect".

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