Broken genius
Subtitle: the rise and fall of William Shockley, creator of the electronic age
By: Joel N. Shurkin
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781403988157
Subjects: Nobel Prize winners; Electrical engineers; Adversaries; Biography; Social Darwinism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: I: Moira: May and Billy; title: 'I've got dark eyes. I can frighten people'; title: The lightness of being; title: II: Hubris: war and the transistor; title: 'Of a highly explosive character'; title: 'I hope you have better luck in the future'; title: 'I think we better call Shockley'; title: 'There's enough glory in this for everybody'; title: '...To do my climbing by moonlight & unroped'; title: 'Well-equipped female with brains'; title: III: Nemesis: silicon valley and obsession; title: 'Really peculiar ideas about how to motivate people'; title: 'Three generations of imbeciles are enough'; title: 'What law of nature have you discovered?'; title: 'Someday we may actually be terrible alone'; title: 'The high cost of thinking the unthinkable'; title: 'I love you'.