Silicon Valley born
09/1955 AD founded
Shockley moved from New Jersey to Mountain View, California to start Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to live closer to his ailing and elderly mother in Palo Alto, California.
The company, a division of Beckman Instruments, Inc., was the first establishment working on silicon semiconductor devices in what came to be known as Silicon Valley.
Mountain View, CA
Lattitude: 37.3894° N
Longitude: 122.0819° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
Lattitude: 37.3894° N
Longitude: 122.0819° W
Region: North America
Modern Day United States
Subjects Who or What founded?
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William Shockley American physicist and i...
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Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory Pioneering silicon semic...
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