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William Shockley

American physicist and inventor.

Born February 13th, 1910 in London.

Died August 12th, 1989 at 79 years old in Stanford (prostate cancer).

Occupations
inventor, physicist, university teacher
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Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs