Editing William Shockley (section)

==Honors==
* National Medal of Merit, for his war work in 1946.<ref name="Shurkin2006p85"/>
* [[Comstock Prize in Physics]] of the National Academy of Sciences in 1953.<ref name=Comstock>{{cite web|title=Comstock Prize in Physics|url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_comstock|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|access-date=February 13, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229195326/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_comstock|archive-date=December 29, 2010}}</ref>
* First recipient of the [[Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize|Oliver E. Buckley]] Solid State Physics Prize of the American Physical Society in 1953.
* 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. 
* [[Holley Medal]] of the [[American Society of Mechanical Engineers]] in 1963.
* [[Wilhelm Exner Medal]] in 1963.<ref>Editor, ÖGV. (2015). Wilhelm Exner Medal. Austrian Trade Association. ÖGV. Austria.</ref>
* Honorary science doctorates from the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Gustavus Adolphus Colleges in Minnesota.
* [[IEEE Medal of Honor]] from the [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]] (IEEE) in 1980.
* Named by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
* Listed at {{Numero|3}} on the [[Boston Globe]]'s 2011 [[MIT150]] list of the top 150 innovators and ideas in the 150-year history of [[MIT]].