I'm breezing through David Bodanis's easy to read "Electric Universe", but came to something of a halt on pages 181-183 about the development of the transistor. Shockley was the inventor, right? Hardly, but he sure knew how to get the credit; however, in the most round-about way imaginable, he was probably singlehanded responsible for the rise of Silicon Valley. Quite a story on those several pages. (What a jerk!)
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