About this title: Broken Genius is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant and reviled scientists of the 20th century. Shockley won a Nobel Prize for inventing the transistor, upon which almost everything that makes the modern world is based. Little has affected history as much as this device, developed along with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at AT&T's Bell Telephone Laboratories in the mid-1940s. But William Shockley is remembered more for one of the most vicious controversies in modern science. His campaigning about race, intelligence and ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan
Date Published: 6-8-06
ISBN-13:9781403988157ISBN:1403988153
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan
Date Published: 6-8-06
ISBN-13:9781403988157ISBN:1403988153
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan, London
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781403988157ISBN:1403988153
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: 2008-01-08
ISBN-13:9780230551923ISBN:0230551920
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780230551923ISBN:0230551920
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780230551923ISBN:0230551920
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780230551923ISBN:0230551920
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: 2007
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: 2007
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: 2007
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: 2007
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: 2007
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: 2007
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780230551923ISBN:0230551920
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