Article: Wired.(Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age)(Book review)

Article: William B. Shockley, Winner of Nobel Prize, Dies
The Washington Post;  August 14, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... said John R. Pierce, a longtime Bell Labs scientist and executive. "It was his {Dr. Shockley's} initiative that pushed the work." In 1956 Dr. Shockley left Bell Labs and moved to New England to work ...

Article: WILLIAM SHOCKLEY, NOBEL WINNER WHO STIRRED RACIAL ...
The Boston Globe;  August 15, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... technical descendants of Mr. Shockley's work. Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories, the company he founded after leaving Bell labs in 1954, was instrumental in ... blocks of the computer age. Mr. Shockley sparked campus demonstrations ...

Article: Bardeen, John 1908Computer Sciences;      700+ words ... ... boss William B. Shockley at AT&T's Bell Labs in Murray Hill ... their boss, Shockley, was also credited ... Bardeen left Bell Labs in 1951 to become ... transferred out of Shockley's department ... continued to work at Bell Labs until his retirement ...

Transcript: Electronics Pioneer William Shockley's Legacy
NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday;  July 21, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... the history of William Shockley and the transistor ... was a team leader at Bell Labs in the mid-1940s ... state physics to do it. Shockley was the team leader ... and he then leaves Bell Labs. Mr. SHURKIN: Yes ... Beckman, he founded Shockley Semiconductor in Palo ...

Article: Transforming society with transistors and integrated circuits ...
The Topeka Capital-Journal;  December 5, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Brattain and William Shockley of Bell Labs a few months before ... Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley, of Bell Labs, believed that a ... their discovery. Shockley eventually became disenchanted with Bell Labs, where his reputation ...

Article: Happy 50th. (Bell Laboratories scientists John Bardeen, Walter ...
Electronic Business;  December 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... of the invention was Shockley Transistor in 1955 ... silicon," adds former Bell Labs President Ian Ross ... amp;T) in 1952 while Shockley's scientific group ... says. Ross credits then Bell Labs Director of Research ...

Article: William Shockley, controversial physicist, dies
Chicago Sun-Times;  August 14, 1989 ;     465 words ... ... winning physicist William B. Shockley, whose breakthrough work on ... officials said Sunday. Mr. Shockley, 79, died Saturday of cancer ... Brattain for their work at Bell Labs in Holmdel, N.J., in developing ... computers. In 1954, Mr. Shockley organized a semiconductor company ...