Nobel Prize in Physics 1956
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William Bradford Shockley
Prize share: 1/3
John Bardeen
Prize share: 1/3
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Walter Houser Brattain
Prize share: 1/3
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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