William Shockley - The Father Of Silicon Valley (biography)

William Shockley - The Father of Silicon Valley is the biography of William Shockley, who co-invented the transistor, and was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s led to California's "Silicon Valley" becoming a hotbed of electronics innovation. In his later life, Shockley was a professor at Stanford, and he also became a staunch advocate of eugenics. Shockley was a popular speaker/lecturer, and an amateur magician. Late in his life, Shockley became intensely interested in questions of race, intelligence and eugenics. William Shockley - The Father of Silicon Valley is highly recommended for those interested in reading more about this inventor of the transistor.