Shock·ley  (shŏk'lē)  British-born American physicist. He shared a 1956 Nobel Prize for the development of the electronic transistor. |
| Shockley (shŏk'lē) Pronunciation Key
American physicist who, with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, invented the transistor in 1947. For this work, all three shared the Nobel Prize for physics in 1956. Shockley went on to make improvements to the transistor that made it easier to manufacture. |