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In 1987 Shockley learned that he had prostate cancer but choose not to undergo surgery. Within a year, the cancer had metastasized to his bones and he began receiving treatments at the Mayo Clinic, although to little avail. He died at home on the morning of August 12, 1989, aged 79.
“Every positive value has its price in negative terms, and you never see anything very great which is not, at the same, time, horrible in some respect. The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima”
Pablo Picasso to Francoise Gilot, 1948
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J. Damore, D. Gudeman vs. Google, 18CV321529, January 8, 2018.
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W. Shockley, “Crystals, Electronics and Man’s Conquest of Nature”, Int. Conference on Solid-State Physics in Electronics and Telecommunications, Brussels, June 2–7, 1958.
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To be precise, a more appropriate term would be German term "Mitläufer."
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S. Thomas, Men of Space, Chilton, Philadelphia, 1960.
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W. Shockley, “Physics, Dollars, And Sputnik”, presentation at American Physical Society, December 20, 1957.
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W. Shockley, “Population Control and Eugenics”, 1956 Nobel Conf. on Genetics and the Future of Man, St. Peter, Minnesota, 1956.
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Page SF161-479 in Shockley’s FBI Report.
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Lojek, B. (2021). Epilogue. In: William Shockley: The Will to Think. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65958-5_15
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