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What did William Shockley's semiconductor do?
The first working transistor was a point-contact transistor invented by William Shockley, Walter Houser Brattain and John Bardeen at Bell Labs in 1947.
What year was the semiconductor made?
The first working transistor was a point-contact transistor invented by John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain and William Shockley at Bell Labs in 1947.
Did William Shockley win any awards for semiconductors?
The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.
Who did William Shockley work with?
In late 1957, eight of Shockley's researchers, who would come to be known as the traitorous eight, resigned after Shockley decided not to continue research into silicon-based semiconductors.

Question: Why were they called that?
Self-contained rewrite: Why were William Shockley's traitorous eight called that?