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

Name: Broken Genius
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9780230551923
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ISBN: 9780230551923

Second Edition 2008

by J. Shurkin

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Macmillan Science

ISBN-10 0230551920

ISBN-13 9780230551923

Edition Second Edition 2008

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 13th, 2006

Print length 302 Pages

Weight 464 grams

Dimensions 15.60 x 23.00 x 2.20 cms

Product Classification: Popular science Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism History of engineering & technology History of engineering and technology

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This is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant and reviled scientists of the 20th century. Drawing upon unique access to the private Shockley archives, veteran technology historian and journalist Joel Shurkin gives an unflinching account of how such promise ended in such ignominy.

A portrait of the controversial Nobel Prize-winning scientist documents his invention of the transistor and role in the founding of Silicon Valley before his beliefs about remedial education, race, and the sterilization of low-intelligence individuals destroyed his reputation. Reprint.

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