William Shockley’s Nobel Prize didn’t stop his descent into racial extremism—just as Elon Musk’s tech brilliance doesn’t exempt him from public scrutiny. This article explores how ...

Who Was William Shockley? Shockley was an influential physicist. He won a 1956 Nobel Prize for his work on transistors, and the employees at his lab went on to found Fairchild Semiconductors.

William Bradford Shockley clearly was one of the brightest scientists of the 20th century, yet he lived a life of noisy desperation. He was a modern hero taken from one of the ancient Greek ...

Your issue about California and the Nobel Prizes was fascinating, particularly the article about the triumphs and tragedies of William Shockley ("The Twisted Legacy of William Shockley," by Michael A.

But Shockley Semiconductor failed miserably, largely because its founder was the tech industry's original bad boss. Shockley was an archetypal mis-manager, driving his employees so crazy that they ...

Inventor William Shockley won a Nobel Prize for his work on transistors, work that launched the modern electronic age. He also became widely known for controversial ideas on eugenics and race.

How dishonest was it for Stanford to leave the tarnished name of physicist William Shockley off its list of Nobel laureates in the full-page advertisement that appeared Dec. 2?

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran producers William Shockley and Tom Brady have partnered with Allen Gilmer and Riki Rushing to launch Thunderbird Pictures, a new production company to have a presence in both ...

This is where William Shockley set up shop in 1956, bringing with him the transistor he helped invent at Bell Labs in New Jersey. While some people argue that the Palo Alto garage where William ...