Nobel Prize in physics, 1956
firstname: William B.
surname: Shockley
motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
firstname: John
surname: Bardeen
motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"
firstname: Walter H.
surname: Brattain
motivation: "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"