IRE Honors Shockley
DOI: 10.1063/1.3067452
William Shockley, research physicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, will receive the 1952 Morris Liebmann Memorial Prize of the Institute of Radio Engineers “in recognition of his contributions to the creation and development of the transistor” during the IRE’s national convention in New York City, March 3–6, it has been announced. The Prize carries a monetary award of varying amount, derived from the income of a $10,000 endowment fund donated to the Institute more than thirty years ago by E. J. Simon in memory of Colonel Liebmann, whose life was lost during World War I. It is given annually to a member of the IRE who, in the opinion of the Institute’s board of directors and upon the recommendation of the awards committee, shall have made an important contribution to the radio art.
