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

J. Shurkin

Palgrave Macmillan US, 13 июн. 2006 г. - Всего страниц: 302

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.

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Пользовательский отзыв  - Shrike58 - LibraryThing

If there's a poster child for the concept of social intelligence than William Shockley was that man. There seems to be little other explanation for the deficiencies that led to the self-destruction of ...

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Joel Shurkin has done a reasonably good job in this book, and it is well worth reading if you have an interest in the history of technology and the forces that shape our times. Shockley was a very ...

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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 Reuters, served ten years as Science Writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer 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 Terman's Kids (Little, Brown) about the study of gifted students, Invisible Fire, on the eradication of smallpox, a science-fiction novel called The Helix (Norton) and most recently A Consumer's Guide to Psychotherapy (OUP). His definitive history of the computer, Engines of the Mind (Norton), is in multiple editions in several languages.

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• Название: Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age; Macmillan Science
• Автор: J. Shurkin
• Издание: 2, иллюстрированное
• Издатель: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2006
• ISBN: 0230552293, 9780230552296
• Количество страниц: Всего страниц: 302