William Shockley

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William Shockley

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William Shockley - American physicist and inventor (1910–1989). Article “William Shockley” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Russian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “William Shockley”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1797 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 193 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 13377 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #7865 in December 2025
  • Global: #825 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #24487 in January 2008
  • Global: #18583 in December 2015

There are 53 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Russian (ru)
Шокли, Уильям Брэдфорд
90.7692
2English (en)
William Shockley
86.191
3Finnish (fi)
William Shockley
63.9861
4Hungarian (hu)
William Shockley (fizikus)
55.1524
5Thai (th)
วิลเลียม ชอกลีย์
51.8512
6Greek (el)
Γουίλλιαμ Μπράντφορντ Σόκλεϋ
50.3103
7Catalan (ca)
William Shockley
47.0493
8Italian (it)
William Bradford Shockley
40.2685
9Spanish (es)
William Bradford Shockley
37.6428
10German (de)
William Bradford Shockley
37.1192
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "William Shockley" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
William Shockley
3 254 697
2Spanish (es)
William Bradford Shockley
306 170
3Russian (ru)
Шокли, Уильям Брэдфорд
246 180
4Japanese (ja)
ウィリアム・ショックレー
241 798
5German (de)
William Bradford Shockley
224 831
6Chinese (zh)
威廉·肖克利
159 287
7French (fr)
William Shockley
152 238
8Polish (pl)
William Shockley
122 652
9Italian (it)
William Bradford Shockley
93 882
10Portuguese (pt)
William Bradford Shockley
89 076
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "William Shockley" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
William Shockley
15 292
2Japanese (ja)
ウィリアム・ショックレー
884
3Chinese (zh)
威廉·肖克利
747
4German (de)
William Bradford Shockley
662
5Russian (ru)
Шокли, Уильям Брэдфорд
491
6Spanish (es)
William Bradford Shockley
408
7French (fr)
William Shockley
365
8Italian (it)
William Bradford Shockley
257
9Portuguese (pt)
William Bradford Shockley
207
10Polish (pl)
William Shockley
182
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "William Shockley" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
William Shockley
525
2German (de)
William Bradford Shockley
115
3French (fr)
William Shockley
98
4Russian (ru)
Шокли, Уильям Брэдфорд
79
5Italian (it)
William Bradford Shockley
69
6Spanish (es)
William Bradford Shockley
60
7Dutch (nl)
William Shockley
55
8Japanese (ja)
ウィリアム・ショックレー
52
9Chinese (zh)
威廉·肖克利
43
10Hebrew (he)
ויליאם שוקלי
41
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The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "William Shockley" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
William Shockley
3
2Serbian (sr)
Вилијам Шокли
3
3Arabic (ar)
وليم شوكلي
1
4German (de)
William Bradford Shockley
1
5French (fr)
William Shockley
1
6Hungarian (hu)
William Shockley (fizikus)
1
7Ukrainian (uk)
Вільям Бредфорд Шоклі
1
8Azerbaijani (az)
Vilyam Şokli
0
9Belarusian (be)
Уільям Брэдфард Шоклі
0
10Bulgarian (bg)
Уилям Шокли
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "William Shockley" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
William Shockley
1 141
2Portuguese (pt)
William Bradford Shockley
546
3Persian (fa)
ویلیام شاکلی
470
4Romanian (ro)
William Bradford Shockley
437
5Chinese (zh)
威廉·肖克利
425
6Arabic (ar)
وليم شوكلي
397
7Ukrainian (uk)
Вільям Бредфорд Шоклі
379
8Serbian (sr)
Вилијам Шокли
370
9Polish (pl)
William Shockley
365
10Korean (ko)
윌리엄 쇼클리
364
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
وليم شوكلي
azAzerbaijani
Vilyam Şokli
beBelarusian
Уільям Брэдфард Шоклі
bgBulgarian
Уилям Шокли
caCatalan
William Shockley
csCzech
William Bradford Shockley
daDanish
William Shockley
deGerman
William Bradford Shockley
elGreek
Γουίλλιαμ Μπράντφορντ Σόκλεϋ
enEnglish
William Shockley
eoEsperanto
William Shockley
esSpanish
William Bradford Shockley
etEstonian
William Bradford Shockley
euBasque
William Shockley
faPersian
ویلیام شاکلی
fiFinnish
William Shockley
frFrench
William Shockley
glGalician
William Bradford Shockley
heHebrew
ויליאם שוקלי
hiHindi
विलियम शोक्ली
hrCroatian
William Bradford Shockley
huHungarian
William Shockley (fizikus)
hyArmenian
Ուիլյամ Շոքլի
idIndonesian
William Shockley
itItalian
William Bradford Shockley
jaJapanese
ウィリアム・ショックレー
kaGeorgian
უილიამ შოკლი
kkKazakh
Уильям Брэдфорд Шокли
koKorean
윌리엄 쇼클리
laLatin
Gulielmus Shockley
msMalay
William Shockley
nlDutch
William Shockley
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
William Shockley
noNorwegian
William Shockley
plPolish
William Shockley
ptPortuguese
William Bradford Shockley
roRomanian
William Bradford Shockley
ruRussian
Шокли, Уильям Брэдфорд
shSerbo-Croatian
William Bradford Shockley
simpleSimple English
William Shockley
skSlovak
William Shockley
slSlovenian
William Bradford Shockley
srSerbian
Вилијам Шокли
svSwedish
William B. Shockley
taTamil
வில்லியம் ஷாக்லி
thThai
วิลเลียม ชอกลีย์
trTurkish
William Shockley
ukUkrainian
Вільям Бредфорд Шоклі
urUrdu
ولیم شوکلی
uzUzbek
William Shockley
viVietnamese
William Shockley
zhChinese
威廉·肖克利
zhminnanMin Nan
William Shockley

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#24487
01.2008
Global:
#18583
12.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#7865
12.2025
Global:
#825
06.2001

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on William Shockley from Wikipedia articles about Russian roulette, Transistor, Traitorous eight, John Bardeen and Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. Whereas reading the article about William Shockley people most often go to Wikipedia articles on John Bardeen, Eugenics, William Hillman Shockley, Transistor and Walter Houser Brattain.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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