The thing that bothers me about Shockley is how he was actually not that involved in developing the transistor. Bardeen and Brattain got it working without much

The thing that bothers me about Shockley is how he was actually not that involved in developing the transistor. Bardeen and Brattain got it working without much input from Shockley. But once they got it working, Shockley swooped in and tried to take most of the credit. That's not how to live life.