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Many years ago, I attended a three-day seminar organized by the young T.J. Rodgers at Stanford University. The topic on day one was how to answer a question “no.” On the second day it was how to answer a question “yes,” and on the last day how to answer a question “I do not know.” Before attending the seminar, I already knew that some people talk for a long time without communicating any usable information. The seminar taught me a very effective way to get to the root cause of any problem.
“Der Sieger wird immer der Richter und der Besiegte stets der Angeklagte sein” (The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.)
Hermann Göring at Nuremberg Trials 1945–1946.
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A large part of this chapter is based on Shockley’s notebook #28 (author’s archive).
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Notes
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C. Kittel nominated Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley to the Nobel committee.
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Contrary to lore, Noyce was not involved in device development; he was assigned to the project of optical measurement of the thickness of the etched base layer.
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Jack Ryder sent a reply in the same code as mentioned in the footnote: “Having been in this so long you should know that electronics is a noun and not an adjective.”
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R. V. Jones, interview by D. C. Brock, 2006.
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Beckman/Spinko on California Avenue in Palo Alto was “Building 2”.
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Van was a nickname for Bell Laboratories’ mathematician Rudy van Roosbroeck.
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I. Giaever, “I am the smartest man I know”, World Scientific, 2017.
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https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1956 did not include Shockley’s speech in the web site (accessed on 10/01/2020).
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J. Moll in an interview with A. Goldstein, IEEE 1993.
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After split with G. Moore, J. Hoerni used the expression “the mastermind.”
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W. Shockley, J.T. Last “Statistics of the charge distribution for a localized flaw in a semiconductor”, Phys. Rev. Vol. 107 (1957), pp. 392-396. Submitted on April 5, 1957.
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D. Allison in an interview with the author on May 12, 2006.
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Arthur Rock claimed that he contacted 35 companies who turned down his proposal before he found Carter at Fairchild. [A. Rock interview with J. Markoff, May 1, 2007].
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PC Magazine, Editor Interview, March 25, 1997.
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In the same article Moore characterized Hoerni as “… one of the fellows at Fairchild came up with the idea for the planar transistor.”
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A.B. Perkins, The Accidental Entrepreneur”, The Herring (https://theherring.org), December 1994.
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W. Shockley versus Cox Enterprises, Inc. and R. Witherspoon, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, Civil Action, C81-1431A.
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US Patent application # 3460116DA September 9, 1965.
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Lojek, B. (2021). Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. In: William Shockley: The Will to Think. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65958-5_12
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