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Broken Genius
The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age
Buch von J. Shurkin
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
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.
Zusammenfassung
1 First biography of a key historical figure (founder of Silicon Valley, Nobel Prize winner, featured in Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of the Twentieth century)
2 Author is world-leading science writer and Pulitzer prize winner
3 Incendiary story of controversial figure
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Fachbereich: EDV
Genre: Informatik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Reihe: Macmillan Science
Inhalt: ix
302 S.
ISBN-13: 9781403988157
ISBN-10: 1403988153
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Shurkin, J.
Auflage: 2nd ed. 2006
Hersteller: Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan US
Macmillan Science
Maße: 235 x 157 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: J. Shurkin
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.06.2006
Gewicht: 0,613 kg
Artikel-ID: 102260613
Über den Autor
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.
Zusammenfassung
1 First biography of a key historical figure (founder of Silicon Valley, Nobel Prize winner, featured in Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of the Twentieth century)
2 Author is world-leading science writer and Pulitzer prize winner
3 Incendiary story of controversial figure
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Fachbereich: EDV
Genre: Informatik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Reihe: Macmillan Science
Inhalt: ix
302 S.
ISBN-13: 9781403988157
ISBN-10: 1403988153
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Shurkin, J.
Auflage: 2nd ed. 2006
Hersteller: Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan US
Macmillan Science
Maße: 235 x 157 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: J. Shurkin
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.06.2006
Gewicht: 0,613 kg
Artikel-ID: 102260613
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