Shockley was out of it by the time Kilby came up with the microprocessor.
In 1958, Mr Kilby moved his family to Dallas to start work at Texas Instruments.
Nick Kilby, Tetley GB Marketing and Development Director said he was "astonished" by the ruling.
On July 24th 1958, however (the date was well worth recording), Mr Kilby had a brainwave.
But Kilby is buoyed by the example of West Brom and hopes his club can follow their example.
Henderson also says he worked with inventor Jack Kilby, who won the Nobel Prize for developing the integrated circuit.
Come to think of it, Bob Noyce and Jack Kilby were in their 20s when they invented the silicon chip.
"The Glasgow press, in particular, have been stoking this up but it's very unwelcome and we don't need it, " Kilby added.
"We will sit down at the end of the season and discuss Brian's plans and our plans, " Kilby told BBC 5 Live.
Watson and Francis Crick's description of DNA's double-helix structure, and in computing, with Jack Kilby's and Bob Noyce's independent inventions of the integrated circuit.
And I was wondering did Shockley, you know, did he ever have any - was there any involvement by Jack Kilby in this work?
"Obviously, after getting to the Premier League after 33 years, it hurts a little bit that that we've gone down after just a year, " said Kilby.
In 1959 Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor and Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments each invented the integrated circuit, etching a transistor onto a two- dimensional chip of silicon.
In fact, again, two separate inventions, and the microchip that we use now was Noyce's work as opposed to Kilby, although Kilby finally won a Nobel Prize, which he roundly deserved.
But although the resulting circuits work on rather different principles from those invented by Dr Kilby, there is a sense in which all of this year's winners are linked by the theme of information-processing.
At the same time that Dr Kilby was demonstrating the first integrated circuit to his colleagues at Texas Instruments, Arvid Carlsson, a Swede, was carrying out the experiments that have won him a share in this year's medicine prize.
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