Broken genius : the rise and fall of William Shockley, creator of the electronic age /
Shurkin, Joel N.,1938-
London ; New York : Macmillan,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-284) and index.
I: Moira: May and Billy -- 'I've got dark eyes. I can frighten people' -- The lightness of being -- II: Hubris: war and the transistor -- 'Of a highly explosive character' -- 'I hope you have better luck in the future' -- 'I think we better call Shockley' -- 'There's enough glory in this for everybody' -- '...To do my climbing by moonlight & unroped' -- 'Well-equipped female with brains' -- III: Nemesis: silicon valley and obsession -- 'Really peculiar ideas about how to motivate people' -- 'Three generations of imbeciles are enough' -- 'What law of nature have you discovered?' -- 'Someday we may actually be terrible alone' -- 'The high cost of thinking the unthinkable' -- 'I love you'.
Shockley, William, 1910-
Shockley, William, 1910-
Electric engineers
Social Darwinism
Nobel prizes