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

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Palgrave Macmillan, 13 июн. 2006 г. - Всего страниц: 378
When William Shockley invented the transistor, the world was changed forever and he was awarded the Nobel Prize. But today Shockley is often remembered only for his incendiary campaigning about race, intelligence, and genetics. His dubious research led him to donate to the Nobel Prize sperm bank and preach his inflammatory ideas widely, making shocking pronouncements on the uselessness of remedial education and the sterilization of individuals with IQs below 100. Ultimately his crusade destroyed his reputation and saw him vilified on national television, yet he died proclaiming his work on race as his greatest accomplishment. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joel N. Shurkin offers the first biography of this contradictory and controversial man. With unique access to the private Shockley archives, Shurkin gives an unflinching account of how such promise ended in such ignominy.

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The lightness of being
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Of a highly explosive character
45
Theres enough glory in this for everybody
107
To do my climbing by moonlight unroped
125
Wellequipped female with brains
142
Really peculiar ideas about how to motivate people
163
Three generations of imbeciles are enough
190
What law of nature have you discovered?
212
Someday we may actually be terribly alone
226
The high cost of thinking the unthinkable
241
Bibliography
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Index
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Joel N. Shurkin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of many books, including Engines of the Mind and Terman's Kids. He lives in Washington, DC.

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