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William B. Shockley

(13 Feb 1910 - 12 Aug 1989)

English-American physicist and engineer.

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Science Quotes by William B. Shockley (1)

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.
Laboratory notebook (29 Dec 1939).

— William B. Shockley

In Michael Dudley Sturge , Statistical and Thermal Physics (2003), 251.

See also: | Semiconductor (3) | Vacuum (7)

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