After 1950, he was awarded the honorary doctorate of science by three universities including the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1936, he has worked in Bell Telephone Laboratory and US Navy Anti-submarine Warfare Research Group. 1945, he has served as director of solid-state physics research institute of Bell Telephone Laboratory, director of transistor physics research, manager of shockley Transistor Company, consultant of shockley Transistor Department of Clevette Transistor Company, visiting professor of California Institute of Technology, and professor of engineering science and applied science of Stanford University. Shockley's research fields include solid energy bands, ferromagnetic domains, metal plasticity, grain boundary theory, ordered-disordered alloys, semiconductor theory applications and electromagnetic theory. He has obtained more than 90 patents and published more than 100 papers. 1in the summer of 945, shockley put forward a proposal to carry out basic research on semiconductors. 1945 in the second half of the year, Bell Telephone Laboratory set up a solid-state physics research group with shockley as the team leader and J. Bardeen and W. H. bratton as the core. 1947 65438+On February 23rd, the point contact transistor was invented, and in June 1948, Bell Telephone Laboratory reported this invention and applied for a patent. 1949, shockley put forward the theory of junction transistor, 1950, M. sparks and G. L. Pearson of Bell Telephone Laboratory made junction transistor. Shockley, Badin and bratton jointly won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. Shockley is a senior member of the American Academy of Arts and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has won the Boman Award, Buckley Award, Comstock Award and Holly Medal.