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 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 ...

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.

Key points. Fifty years ago, Nobel laureate William Shockley stood out as one of the nation's most prominent eugenicists. Shockley believed that his eugenics served the best interests of those ...

William Shockley 1910 - 1989. William Shockley was born in London to American parents who were in England for several years on business. His father was a mining engineer and his mother a federal ...

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 ...