William Shockley was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on semiconductors and discovery of the transistor effect. He could be considered the father of microelectronics and we might not be doing what we do today without him.
To pay homage to the great scientist, Mark Rinehart, the founder of White Horse Laboratories, named our first lab after William Shockley. It reminds us to work with revere to science, and to the industry.