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Wednesday 15 November, 7pm
William Shockley: Creator of the Electronic Age
Time magazine named Nobel laureate William Shockley one of the most important people of the 20th century. He was the co-inventor of the transistor, the cornerstone of the electronic revolution. He founded Silicon Valley but missed out on the INTEL billions. He might have been one of the richest, most influential of men. Instead, Icarus-like, he died in disgrace, virtually alone.
On the 50th anniversary of Shockley's Nobel, this, the first biography, written by Joel Shurkin, asks: why did a man so brilliant deliberately destroy himself? It reads like a Greek tragedy starring Einstein, Eisenhower and Playboy magazine...
Venue: Science Oxford, 1-5 London Place, Oxford, OX4 1BD
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Organised by The Royal Institution of Great Britain in association with The Oxford Trust and Macmillan.
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