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> This article attributes the transistor to Shockley, but this is incorrect. The article does not claim such thing. John writes " After many further developme

> This article attributes the transistor to Shockley, but this is incorrect. The article does not claim such thing. John writes " After many further developments, in 1948 the physicist William Schockley patented transistors that use both holes and electrons to form a kind of switch. " Which it is correct as you can easily check here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2569347 https://patents.google.com/patent/US2569347 This not the case of a PHB robbing all the limelight from the engineers. Shockley was kinda of an asshole and had a big ego but he was a great scientist. And the junction transistor he individually designed and patented (see above) went on to be more successful than the point-contact transistor developed by Brattain and Bardeen. The Nobel prize was fairly awarded to the three of them.

warbaker 6y ago
John Bardeen is one of the greatest physicists of all time. He is the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in physics. Shockley may have been a talented scientist, but he did not invent the transistor, and tried to steal (not share in, but steal) the credit from the people who did. Newton was a jerk, but he invented modern physics. Shockley was also a jerk, but that doesn't mean he invented the transistor.
- BrandoElFollito 6y ago
  Why was Newton a jerk?
aspaceman 6y ago
> kinda an asshole “ My research leads me inescapably to the opinion that the major cause of the American Negro's intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and, thus, not remediable to a major degree by practical improvements in the environment.” Shockley was a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 1982 United States Senate election in California. He ran on a single-issue platform of highlighting the "dysgenic threat" Shockley's name was not on any of these patent applications. This angered Shockley, who thought his name should also be on the patents because the work was based on his field effect idea. He even made efforts to have the patent written only in his name, and told Bardeen and Brattain of his intentions. Some context for the kinda. I’m not impressed much by a guy who can crank out papers and be important in post-WW2 U.S. I have no idea what qualifies as great scientist here. Seems more like you have some “scientist’s legacy ruined by him being a bit of a jerk” angle.
- cambalache 6y ago
  Einstein: "Chinese don’t sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and demurely. Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse.” Keynes: "The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller than at present or the same, is most expedient. And having settled this policy, we must take steps to carry it into operation. The time may arrive a little later when the community as a whole must pay attention to the innate quality as well as to the mere numbers of its future members." Biden: "I don't want my children to grow up in a jungle, a racial jungle." Again with the stupid trend in HN of judging opinions made 40-60-100-200-2000 years ago in the moral and social context of 2021.I am not saying he was correct or even mainstream but eugenics opinion were held by a longggg time for many literate people.You are free to judge him for it, that is OK, but have in mind that you will consider an asshole too in 100 years, for eating meat, for closing the borders of your country forbidding free transit for all humans, for destroying the habitat of countless of species and a long list of other known or unknown things. > Shockley was a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 1982 United States Senate election in California. He ran on a single-issue platform of highlighting the "dysgenic threat" You are quoting wikipedia verbatim here and pass it as your own writing.Pretty intellectual dishonest. > Shockley's name was not on any of these patent applications. Check this patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2569347 https://patents.google.com/patent/US2569347 See who is registered as the inventor.See the date it was filed. > I’m not impressed much by a guy who can crank out papers and be important in post-WW2 U.S. Thankfully your opinion is irrelevant.Ironic you are writing this from a device made in no small part by technology created by him
  - aspaceman 6y ago
    He didn’t invent them. He didn’t do jack shit. My opinion isn’t irrelevant. Anytime someone brings up his supposed “achiements” I’ll be happy to bring up how he stole those very achievements. His very colleagues claim he had no involvement and attempted to steal the credit. And he is a racist slime ball. That’s his legacy. Deal with it. He’s racist slime. Bardeen invented my transistor, and if he didn’t, well I’m actually quite happy letting slime like Shockley be lost to history. Why the fuck would anyone defend this guy? Plus he _ran for office_. Einstein didn’t for chirsts sake. This is a man who wanted to actively change racial politics _and_ stole all the credit he got.

warbaker 6y ago

John Bardeen is one of the greatest physicists of all time. He is the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in physics. Shockley may have been a talented scientist, but he did not invent the transistor, and tried to steal (not share in, but steal) the credit from the people who did. Newton was a jerk, but he invented modern physics. Shockley was also a jerk, but that doesn't mean he invented the transistor.

BrandoElFollito 6y ago
Why was Newton a jerk?

aspaceman 6y ago

> kinda an asshole “ My research leads me inescapably to the opinion that the major cause of the American Negro's intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and, thus, not remediable to a major degree by practical improvements in the environment.” Shockley was a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 1982 United States Senate election in California. He ran on a single-issue platform of highlighting the "dysgenic threat" Shockley's name was not on any of these patent applications. This angered Shockley, who thought his name should also be on the patents because the work was based on his field effect idea. He even made efforts to have the patent written only in his name, and told Bardeen and Brattain of his intentions. Some context for the kinda. I’m not impressed much by a guy who can crank out papers and be important in post-WW2 U.S. I have no idea what qualifies as great scientist here. Seems more like you have some “scientist’s legacy ruined by him being a bit of a jerk” angle.

cambalache 6y ago
Einstein: "Chinese don’t sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and demurely. Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse.” Keynes: "The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller than at present or the same, is most expedient. And having settled this policy, we must take steps to carry it into operation. The time may arrive a little later when the community as a whole must pay attention to the innate quality as well as to the mere numbers of its future members." Biden: "I don't want my children to grow up in a jungle, a racial jungle." Again with the stupid trend in HN of judging opinions made 40-60-100-200-2000 years ago in the moral and social context of 2021.I am not saying he was correct or even mainstream but eugenics opinion were held by a longggg time for many literate people.You are free to judge him for it, that is OK, but have in mind that you will consider an asshole too in 100 years, for eating meat, for closing the borders of your country forbidding free transit for all humans, for destroying the habitat of countless of species and a long list of other known or unknown things. > Shockley was a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 1982 United States Senate election in California. He ran on a single-issue platform of highlighting the "dysgenic threat" You are quoting wikipedia verbatim here and pass it as your own writing.Pretty intellectual dishonest. > Shockley's name was not on any of these patent applications. Check this patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US2569347 https://patents.google.com/patent/US2569347 See who is registered as the inventor.See the date it was filed. > I’m not impressed much by a guy who can crank out papers and be important in post-WW2 U.S. Thankfully your opinion is irrelevant.Ironic you are writing this from a device made in no small part by technology created by him
- aspaceman 6y ago
  He didn’t invent them. He didn’t do jack shit. My opinion isn’t irrelevant. Anytime someone brings up his supposed “achiements” I’ll be happy to bring up how he stole those very achievements. His very colleagues claim he had no involvement and attempted to steal the credit. And he is a racist slime ball. That’s his legacy. Deal with it. He’s racist slime. Bardeen invented my transistor, and if he didn’t, well I’m actually quite happy letting slime like Shockley be lost to history. Why the fuck would anyone defend this guy? Plus he _ran for office_. Einstein didn’t for chirsts sake. This is a man who wanted to actively change racial politics _and_ stole all the credit he got.