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3 days ago · In the mid-1960s, physicist William Shockley sparked controversy by claiming there might be genetic reasons that black people in the United States tended to score lower on IQ tests than white people.
5 days ago · William Shockley, a co-inventor of the transistor, started Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in 1955 in his hometown of Palo Alto, California. In 1957 his eight top researchers left to form Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, funded by Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation.
5 days ago · During the 1930s at Bell Laboratories, William Shockley, later coinventor of the transistor, had demonstrated a device—a tube, called a delay line, containing water and ethylene glycol—for effecting a predictable delay in information transmission.
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4 days ago · A widely cited estimate of five to ten million Japanese deaths came from a study by William Shockley and Quincy Wright; the upper figure was used by Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, who characterized it as conservative.
6 days ago · Two Union soldiers who 162 years ago took part in one of America's first special operations were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor on Wednesday. "Today we right that wrong. Today they finally receive the recognition they deserve," President Joe Biden said at a White House ceremony.
3 days ago · Shockley's work served as the basis for many electronic developments for decades. [34] [35] Both Frederick Terman and William Shockley are often called "the father of Silicon Valley". [36] [37] Unlike many other researchers who used germanium as the semiconductor material, Shockley believed that silicon was the better material for making transistors.
5 days ago · The invention of the transistor, was fiercely contested. William Shockley struggled to get his initial ideas to work. He enlisted the support of his brilliant colleagues – John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain. As their supervisor William Shockley was supposed to provide them with direction.
