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Broken Genius - J. Shurkin

Broken Genius

The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age

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Buch | Softcover
302 Seiten
2006 | 2nd ed. 2006
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-55192-3 (ISBN)
CHF 74,85 inkl. MwSt
This is the first biography of William Shockley, founding father of Silicon Valley - one of the most significant and reviled scientists of the 20th century. Drawing upon unique access to the private Shockley archives, veteran technology historian and journalist Joel Shurkin gives an unflinching account of how such promise ended in such ignominy.

JOEL N. SHURKIN is Science Writer Emeritus at Stanford University, USA, where he has written and taught for many years. He covered the moon landings for Reuters, served ten years as Science Writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer and was on the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for covering Three Mile Island, among many other awards. He has written nine books including Terman's Kids (Little, Brown) about the study of gifted students, Invisible Fire, on the eradication of smallpox, a science-fiction novel called The Helix (Norton) and most recently A Consumer's Guide to Psychotherapy (OUP). His definitive history of the computer, Engines of the Mind (Norton), is in multiple editions in several languages.

Acknowledgements PART I Nevada England California Physics and M.I.T. "Highly Explosive Character" World War 2 PART II "The Magic Month" "We Better Call Shockley" "There's Enough Glory in This for Everyone" "....To Do My Climbing by Moonlight and Unroped" "Well-equipped Female with Brains" "Really Peculiar Ideas about How to Motivate People" PART III "Three Generations of Imbeciles is Enough" "What Law of Nature Have You Discovered?" "Someday We May Actually Be Very Alone" "The High Cost of Thinking the Unthinkable" "I love you" Bibliography

Reihe/Serie Macmillan Science
Zusatzinfo IX, 302 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Technikgeschichte
Mathematik / Informatik Informatik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Elektrodynamik
ISBN-10 0-230-55192-0 / 0230551920
ISBN-13 978-0-230-55192-3 / 9780230551923
Zustand Neuware
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