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Feb 1, 2007 · In Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age, Joel Shurkin offers the first biography of this important and troubled physicist. His book is a pageturner, which is rare for a scientific biography, but editing problems at times distract from the book’s engaging story.
Aug 14, 1989 · William Bradford Shockley, who shared a Nobel Prize in physics for his role in the creation of the transistor and earned the enmity of many for his views on the genetic differences between the...
Jul 21, 2006 · July 21, 20062:23 PM ET. Heard on Talk of the Nation. Listen. Playlist. Inventor William Shockley won a Nobel Prize for his work on transistors, work that launched the modern electronic age. He...
William Bradford Shockley was head of the solid-state physics team at Bell Labs that developed the first point-contact transistor, which he quickly followed up with the invention of the more advanced junction transistor. He shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain for his work on these projects.
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William Shockley. 1910 - 1989. William Shockley was born in London to American parents who were in England for several years on business. His father was a mining engineer and his mother a...
William Shockley: The Will to Think. Book. © 2021. Download book PDF. Download book EPUB. Overview. Authors: Bo Lojek. Presents a new look at the life of Nobel laureate William B. Shockley. Introduces never-before-published personal correspondence and private writings.
