Shockley

American  

[shok-lee] / ˈʃɒk li /

noun

1. William Bradford, 1910–1989, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1956.

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Shockley British  

/ ˈʃɒklɪ /

noun

1. William Bradfield. 1910–89, US physicist, born in Britain, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1956) with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain for developing the transistor. He also held controversial views on the connection between race and intelligence

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Shockley Scientific  

/ shŏk′lē /

1. 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.

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Example Sentences

When he went to visit a young physicist at MIT, William Shockley, Kelly chatted with him and then called New York for authorization to make an offer.

From The Wall Street Journal

Despite the potential pitfalls of these plans, Shockley acknowledges that when people are staring at much higher premiums, “you are looking at options.”

From MarketWatch

People make their insurance decisions based on how they expect to use their healthcare next year, which is tough because it’s impossible to forecast healthcare needs, said Drew Shockley, co-founder of health-insurance-planning firm Move Health.

From MarketWatch

Floyd W. Shockley, collections manager of the Department of Entomology at the Smithsonian Institute, said the blue-eyed cicada is rare, but just how rare is uncertain.

From Seattle Times

“We’re on a gradually warming planet,” and the periodical cicadas know it, according to Shockley.

From Salon