Why Is It Called Silicon Valley?

Before Steve Jobs co-founded Apple and before Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook, the physicist Willian Shockley founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View, California. That was after he quit Bell Labs on the East Coast, where his team, which included fellow physicists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, discovered the transistor effect. They unveiled their discovery in 1947, and it changed the world.