Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age

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.

Author: J. Shurkin
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/13/2006
Pages: 302
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.17w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780230551923
ISBN10: 0230551920
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Technology & Engineering | Electronics | Transistors
- Technology & Engineering | History

About the Author
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.