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What year did Shockley, Bardeen, and Brattain win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
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William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 for their research on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.
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