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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.Shurkin, Joel N. is the author of 'Broken Genius The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age', published 2007 under ISBN 9780230551923 and ISBN 0230551920.
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