William B. Shockley
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956.
Born: 13, Feb, 1910, London, United Kingdom
Died: 12, Aug, 1989, Palo Alto CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
Affiliation at the time of the award: Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments Inc., Mountain View CA, USA
Prize share: 1/3