Originally Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the company was founded by William Shockley in 1955 in Mountain View, California, eventually considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. Shockley was a ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three scientists at Bell Labs in New Jersey received a U.S. patent for what would become one of the most important inventions of the 20th century — the transistor. John Bardeen, ...

Discover who is known as the Father of Silicon Valley. Learn how Frederick Terman and William Shockley shaped the world’s ...

Much of the credit for the digital revolution is owed to the early pioneers of Silicon Valley -- from transistor inventor William Shockley and the Traitorous Eight to investor Sherman Fairchild, Intel ...

Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was a semiconductor company founded by eight employees of Shockley Transistor. Branded as the "traitorous eight" by William Shockley, they left as a group ...

I: Moira: May and Billy -- 'I've got dark eyes. I can frighten people' -- The lightness of being -- II: Hubris: war and the transistor -- 'Of a highly explosive character' -- 'I hope you have better ...

As a consultant during World War II, he estimated that an American invasion of Japan would produce such high casualties that US leaders instead decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ...