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Broken GeniusJoel N. Shurkin

Broken Genius

2006297 pages
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Details the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist William Shockley, who co-invented the transistor and was an outspoken advocate of eugenics.

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3 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2007
    Macmillan · 378 pages · 9780230551923
  • Other · English · 2010
    Palgrave Macmillan · 9781281283856
  • Other · English · 2006
    Macmillan · 297 pages · 9781403988157
Electric engineersSocial darwinismNobel prizesUnited states, biographyNobel Prize winnersElectrical engineersAdversariesBiography