a techfocus media publication :: May 15, 2007 :: volume VII, no. 06

FROM THE EDITOR

This week, Dick Selwood reviews Joel N. Shurkin's biography of William Shockley – titled "Broken Genius."  Shockley – who won the Nobel Prize for inventing the transistor and is credited by many as the father of Silicon Valley was also a deeply controversial figure whose unpleasant legacy is documented in Shurkin's book.  Our intrepid history buff - European editor Dick Selwood, gives us a summary.

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Dick Selwood reviews "Broken Genius"

391 San Antonio Road in Mountain View is about to be redeveloped.  Why should this interest you?  Because that is where, one might argue, Silicon Valley started when William Shockley founded his semiconductor company in 1955. To understand the man, Dick Selwood reviews Joel N. Shurkin’s biography, Broken Genius.

William Shockley won the Nobel Prize for inventing the transistor, founded Silicon Valley, was a virulent racist, and donated sperm to a sperm bank for the super intelligent. All of this is true – but often only up to a point.

William Shockley was born in 1910 in London, where his American father had moved to try to restore his fortunes. He grew up in Palo Alto and attended Caltech at the time when it was beginning to build its reputation. At MIT he worked on the electron configuration of atoms, with a PhD thesis on electron movement in sodium. He was immediately recruited to Bell Labs, then a hot bed of research and innovation. [more]
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