William Shockley

Regarding Daniel Henninger's " Stability's End " Wonder Land, Feb. 3: Nobel Prize-winner William Shockley may or may not have caused it all, but there is indisputable truth in the last line of Mr. Henninger's column on technology and revolution.

It Is Saudi Arabia That Is the Big Prize 2011

Then there is the problem of belief by the very intelligent that intelligence can explain anything, a belief that led Noam Chomsky from brilliance in linguistics to gnomic rants about politics or Nobel laureate William Shockley from inventing the transistor to theorizing about racial inferiority.

Thinking Inside the Box Henry Allen 2011

Most history books credit William Shockley at Bell Labs Research with the first silicon transistor, which was produced in 1954 by Texas Instruments.

Intel 3D transistors: why and when? 2011

Then there is the problem of belief by the very intelligent that intelligence can explain anything, a belief that led Noam Chomsky from brilliance in linguistics to gnomic rants about politics or Nobel laureate William Shockley from inventing the transistor to theorizing about racial inferiority.

Thinking Inside the Box Henry Allen 2011

It was aided by people like Nobel Laureate William Shockley, who in 1956 voiced his theory of a genetic basis for racial inferiority.

Irene Monroe: Theory of Blacks' Intellectual Inferiority Rears Ugly Head at Harvard 2010

The echoes were amplified in the 1960s by two eminent members of the National Academy of Sciences, William Shockley and Dwight J. Ingle, one a physicist and the other a physiologist, two scientists who played publicly at amateur genetics and who suggested that low-IQ Americans (particularly blacks) were contaminating the American gene pool and that ways had to be found to encourage them to submit to sterilization.

Dan Agin: Black and White in America III: From Eugenics to Madness 2009

In 1947 William Shockley and his team at Bell Labs invented the transistor, which had the ability to take an electric current and translate it into on-off binary data.

American Sketches Walter Isaacson 2009

Michael Phillips wanted to construct the next transistor, one better than the transistor William Shockley had invented in nineteen-fifty-six.

Blood Orange, A Novella Tom Maremaa 2009

Silicon Valley is where it is because William Shockley wanted to move back to Palo Alto, where he grew up, and the experts he lured west to work with him liked it so much they stayed.

A Local Revolution? 2009

William Shockley (1910-1989) was a bizarre figure in 20th century science, a Nobel prize-winning physicist who abandoned the rigorous thinking of physics to pontificate about genetics, biology, psychology, behavior, and intelligence.

Dan Agin: Black and White in America III: From Eugenics to Madness 2009