Broken Genius

The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age
2. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-230-55192-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 460 g

Reihe: Macmillan Science

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shurkin, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements PART I Nevada England California Physics and M.I.T. "Highly Explosive Character" World War 2 PART II "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" PART III "Three Generations of Imbeciles is Enough" "What Law of Nature Have You Discovered?" "Someday We May Actually Be Very Alone" "The High Cost of Thinking the Unthinkable" "I love you" Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

JOEL N. SHURKIN is Science Writer Emeritus at Stanford University, USA, where he has written and taught for many years. He covered the moon landings for , served ten years as Science Writer at the and was on the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for covering Three Mile Island, among many other awards. He has written nine books including (Little, Brown) about the study of gifted students, , on the eradication of smallpox, a science-fiction novel called (Norton) and most recently (OUP). His definitive history of the computer, (Norton), is in multiple editions in several languages.