Broken Genius The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age

Name: Broken Genius The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age
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ISBN: 9781403988157

ISBN-10: 1403988153

ISBN-13: 9781403988157

Edition: 2nd 2008 (Revised)

Authors: Joel N. Shurkin, Joel Shurkin

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'Broken Genius' is the biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley, one of the most significant scientists of the 20th century. Shockley won a Nobel Prize for inventing the transistor, upon which almost everything that makes the modern world is based.

Book details

List price: $79.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 6/13/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 302
Size: 6.36" wide x 9.45" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



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Nevada


England


California


Physics and M.I.T


""Highly Explosive Character""


World War 2 -





""The Magic Month""


""We Better Call Shockley""


""There's Enough Glory in This for Everyone""


""....To Do My Climbing by Moonlight and Unroped""


""Well-equipped Female with Brains""


""Really Peculiar Ideas about How to Motivate People"" -





""Three Generations of Imbeciles is Enough""


""What Law of Nature Have You Discovered?""


""Someday We May Actually Be Very A