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William Bradford Shockley byl americký fyzik a vynálezce. Spolu s Johnem Bardeenem a Valterem H. Brattainem, objevil tranzistor, za který všichni získali v roce 1956 Nobelovu cenu za fyziku. Shockleyovy pokusy obchodně využít tento objev vedly ke vzniku "Silicon Valley" v Kalifornii, které se stalo ohniskem elektrotechnické inovace. Ve svém pozdějším životě, byl Shockley profesorem ve Stanfordu, a také se stal neochvějným zastáncem eugeniky. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. únor 1910 – 12. srpen 1989
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“Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.”

As quoted in "Shockley's Race View called 'Senile, Fascist'" in St. Petersburg Times (8 September 1971) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19710908&id=sewNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vnUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4930,1230689

“I am overwhelmed by an irresistible temptation to do my climb by moonlight and unroped. This is contrary to all my rock climbing teaching & does not mean poor training, but only a strong-headedness.”

Memo to himself in 1947, regarding work on the transistor, as quoted in Broken Genius : The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age (2006) by Joel N. Shurkin, Ch. 7, p. 125.