4739611
9781403988157
'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 is the author of 'Broken Genius The Rise And Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age', published 2006 under ISBN 9781403988157 and ISBN 1403988153.
[read more]