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 ...
A young man, the survivor of a horrific tragedy as a child, must choose between vengeance and the love of a young woman.
It is widely agreed, for instance, that William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the first transistor in 1947. Such inventions and discoveries were based on research conducted ...
William Shockley died of prostate cancer at the age of 79, Emmy at his side, Aug. 12, 1989. His children read about it in the newspapers.