Broken genius : the rise and fall of William Shockley, creator of the electronic age
Shurkin, Joel N., 1938-2006
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'Broken Genius' is the biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley, one of the most significant 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.
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London : Macmillan, 2006.
Collation:
ix, 297 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781403988157 (hbk)
Dewey class:
621.381092B/SHO
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B/SHO
Language:
English
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BRN:
529867
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