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Mr. JOEL SHURKIN (Author, Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age): Hi, (unintelligible), how are you?
NPR: Electronics Pioneer William Shockley's Legacy
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He's author of the book, Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age, recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.
NPR: Electronics Pioneer William Shockley's Legacy
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Joel Shurkin, author of the book, Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age, recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.
NPR: Electronics Pioneer William Shockley's Legacy
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I'm talking with Joel Shurkin, author of the book, Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age, just out. 1-800-989-8255 is our number.
NPR: Electronics Pioneer William Shockley's Legacy
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It's almost a certainty that if you're listening to this program now you're using tiny electronic devices that can trace their heritage back to the mind of William Shockley.
NPR: Electronics Pioneer William Shockley's Legacy
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Tell us who, for people who don't know, you know, the history of William Shockley and the transistor, give us a little thumbnail sketch of his involvement with it.
NPR: Electronics Pioneer William Shockley's Legacy
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As the documentary unfolds, we learn of the frustrations and limitations the eight felt under William Shockley, who invented the transistor and won a Nobel Prize for his work.
FORBES: Connect
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William Shockley's Nobel Prize-winning brainchild, the transistor, changed everything.
FORBES: TRACKING THE EVOLUTION OF TAKE-OUT TUNES
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Its founder, William Shockley, was fresh from winning the Nobel Prize (he had co-invented the transistor at Bell Labs in the 1940s) and was busy hiring the sharpest minds he could find to investigate the potential of semiconductors.
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