Transistor Full Documentary John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs very nice ..... best 73 de IW2BSF - Rudy
I met Dr Shockley at an early 70's IEEE meeting in Syracuse, NY. I was an officer of the local chapter that invited Mr Shockley as a speaker. He presented his theory on race and IQ. We were expecting a discussion of the invention of the transistor. The local chapter of the NAACP showed up. It was a rather embarrassing affair. I was never active in the IEEE after this.
Shockley was a racist, I refuse to watch anything that even remotely celebrates him. Same with Jim Watson.
Please look up your subject. Shockley was an advocate of the superiority of white people, a bogus and hateful position at odds with reality. Furthermore there is substantial pre history of the transistor that preceded Bell Labs.
No title correction required. Some folks are just adding detail to the documentary. Shockley devoted time and effort promoting racism after he left Bell Labs. Other folks were pursuing the transistor prior to the team awarded the title of co-inventers. I think folks are just filling out the "full" documentary.
He should have stuck to the technical subject matter and kept his opinions to himself. That sounds like it was utterly inappropriate. FWIW I find that most of the people I race with are pretty intelligent, I don't think you can draw any correlation between racing and intelligence.
Charlie, Not sure if you care to, but would love to hear more about this. I had read years ago about Shockley's views, but I'm fascinated that he'd come to an IEEE meeting and start down that path. I'm just trying to imagine what that must have been like. Did he step up to speak? Or was the situation such that he wasn't going to, given the NAACP attendees? Did things get heated? You owe me no answer, just fascinated by the dynamics. 73, Bernie
I use to work with a gentleman who knew him, Shockley was obsessed with the subject, to the point it made him hard to work with according to this man.
Uh oh, a snowflake here got "triggered", now off to your safe space. Great story about great Americans. Thanks for the post.
The point is; While they can be celebrated for their accomplishments that have changed our lives for ever. The fact is these people are just humans, with the same faults as the rest of us, or even worse faults. They are NOT truly great people, they were people doing a job, who happened to be the best at what they did.
