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William Shockley.

"Co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956, along with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. In his Nobel lecture, he gave full credit to Brattain and Bardeen as the inventors of the point-contact transistor."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley#Honors



If I'm not mistaken, he invented the predecessor of the Bipolar Junction Transistor, which was the type that was actually commercialized.




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