William Shockley - Honors

Honors

• He received the National Medal of Merit for his war work in 1946.
• He received the Comstock Prize in Physics of the National Academy of Sciences in 1953.
• He was the first recipient of the Oliver E. Buckley Solid State Physics Prize of the American Physical Society in 1953.
• Shockley was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956, along with Bardeen and Brattain. In his Nobel lecture, he gave full credit to Brattain and Bardeen as the inventors of the point-contact transistor. The three of them, together with wives and guests, had a rather raucous late-night champagne-fueled party to celebrate together.
• Holley Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1963.
• He received honorary science doctorates from the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University in New Jersey and Gustavus Adolphus Colleges in Minnesota.
• Maurice Liebman Memorial Prize from the Institute of Radio Engineers (now the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)) in 1980.
• Shockley was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
• In 2011, he was listed at #3 on the Boston Globe's MIT150 list of the top 150 innovators and ideas in the 150 year history of MIT.