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Article: Silicon Valley Birthplace: William Shockley's digs?(Originated from KRT CALIFORNIA)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- July 15, 1998
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By Barbara Feder
Knight Ridder Newspapers
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ The real birthplace of Silicon Valley, as one old-timer sees it, is not the fabled Palo Alto garage that spawned Hewlett-Packard or Steve Jobs' garage or any other such wannabe.
It's a squat stucco building in Mountain View where Nobel Prize winner William Shockley first put the silicon in Silicon Valley. And Jacques Beaudouin, a retired engineer who worked on Shockley's team, is lobbying Mountain View officials to recognize the site.
In the 1950s, this is where Shockley built a lab to produce the silicon transistors that would beget the integrated circuits that made ...