During the winter of 1954–1955, William Shockley decided to seek a sponsor to help him establish production of complex transistors and his own
Shockley diodes. He was initially supported by
Raytheon, but the agreement was soon canceled by that company. After Shockley subsequently established
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory under the umbrella of
Beckman Instruments, he recruited
William W. Happ who he knew from Raytheon. Shockley's other three initial recruits were
George Smoot Horsley and
Leopoldo B. Valdes both of whom he knew from
Bell Labs, and Jones, who was then a new
Berkeley graduate. Much of his teaching and research at Harvard was focused on physics information technology, including acoustical and optical signals used to process and obtain information (applied to fields such as
seismic exploration,
optical computing,
medical ultrasonics and
acoustic microscopy) wave phenomena and digital electronics. == References ==