Notable People in Power Electronics
William Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. After his work with Walther Brattain and John Bardeen, Shockley moved to California and worked on commercializing the new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s which lead to the California “Silicon Valley’s” becoming a national hotspot for innovations in electronics.
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