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Seeing William Shockley in their graphic is a bit funny in my opinion. It's definitely relevant, since he "brought silicon to Silicon Valley" [1], but he seems

• bsder 8y ago
  Money is money, man. If you need a significant fraction of a gigabuck every quarter, you don't ask where the money comes from.
• gumby 8y ago
  He's there for historical reasons only (he's been dead for a while) and indeed he was part of that wealth genealogy. My girlfriend bought his house on campus (Stanford gives tenured faculty assistance to buy houses on campus). As she's in a different field from me she was surprised to learn who he was. He would not have approved in her living there!
• dogma1138 8y ago
  To anyone who’s wondering he is one of the co—discoverers of the transistor effect, for which he won a Nobel prize however he became an advocate for Eugenics towards the end of his life, not necessarily a purely racial superiority stance although there was enough of that too, he basically had a lot of weird ideas including restricting the reproduction of people who don’t meet the intelligence requirements. That said how much different is it than taking money from China or Saudi Arabia?