William Bradford Shockley clearly was one of the brightest scientists of the 20th century, yet he lived a life of noisy desperation. He was a modern hero taken from one of the ancient Greek ...

He joined other protests on campus — notably, one against American inventor and physicist William Shockley, which ultimately got him suspended from the institution. "I was thrown out because of ...

Veteran actor William Shockley (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) is directing the pic as his first feature, having penned the ...

At this point, computers were about the size of a room. In the 1940s, William Shockley coinvented the transistor while at Bell Labs. The transistor is now known as the computer processor.

A crash report and court affidavit provide details about the allegations surrounding a street racing death in Abilene.

It is widely agreed, for instance, that William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the first transistor in 1947. Such inventions and discoveries were based on research conducted ...

William Shockley died of prostate cancer at the age of 79, Emmy at his side, Aug. 12, 1989. His children read about it in the newspapers.

A crash report describing a three-motorcycle collision and court records reveal details of the allegations surrounding a deadly street race in Abilene. An Abilene man is implicated in the death of ...

William Shockley was born in London to American parents who were in England for several years on business. His father was a mining engineer and his mother a federal deputy surveyor of mineral lands.