Physics 1956

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1956

"for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect"

William Bradford Shockley	John Bardeen	Walter Houser Brattain

1/3 of the prize	1/3 of the prize	1/3 of the prize
USA	USA	USA
Semiconductor Laboratory of Beckman Instruments, Inc. Mountain View, CA, USA	University of Illinois Urbana, IL, USA	Bell Telephone Laboratories Murray Hill, NJ, USA
b. 1910 (in London, United Kingdom) d. 1989	b. 1908 d. 1991	b. 1902 d. 1987