William Shockley Physicist (13-Feb-1910 12-Aug-1989) SUBJECT OF BOOKS
Michael Riordan; Lillian Hoddeson. Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age. W. W. Norton & Company. 1997. 352pp. The transistor and early semiconductors. Joel N. Shurkin. Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age. Macmillan. 2008. 297pp.
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