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American physicist who co-invented the transistor at Bell Labs in 1947 — the most consequential invention of the 20th century — and who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice (transistor and superconductivity), the only person to do so in the same field.
American physicist who co-invented the transistor at Bell Labs in 1947 with John Bardeen and William Shockley — sharing the 1956 Nobel Prize — and who contributed the experimental work that made the point-contact transistor functional.
American physicist who led the Bell Labs team that invented the transistor — sharing the 1956 Nobel Prize — and who founded Shockley Semiconductor in Palo Alto, creating the talent concentration that spawned Fairchild Semiconductor and then the entire Silicon Valley ecosystem.