> William Shockley won the Nobel Prize in physics, created the semiconductor, and is the reason Silicon Valley even exists. He also said blacks are dumber than whites.

William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect."

Partly as a result of Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s, California's Silicon Valley became a hotbed of electronics innovation. He recruited brilliant employees, but quickly alienated them with his autocratic and erratic management; they left and founded major companies in the industry.

In his later life, while he was a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University and afterward, Shockley became known as a racist and a eugenicist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley

Education    

California Institute of Technology (BS)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)

Stanford wouldn't let Russell Varian (invented the klystron) into their PhD program.

*p

 wrote:Stanford wouldn't let Russell Varian (invented the klystron) into their PhDrogram.
Yet, Stanford gave a degree in "Communications" to negro Richard Sherman, even though he sounds like a ghetto chimp ranting in ebonics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PH35C7Fhq0

Sounds like a lot of smart people. They get really good at 1 thing, and then convince themselves they are good at EVERYTHING. 

Elon Musk is a perfect example of this kind of flawed thinking. He may have been a smart business guy at one point, but he's not good at everything.

 wrote:Sounds like a lot of smart people. They get really good at 1 thing, and then convince themselves they are good at EVERYTHING. 

Elon Musk is a perfect example of this kind of flawed thinking. He may have been a smart business guy at one point, but he's not good at everything.
What part was he wrong about?

 wrote:Sounds like a lot of smart people. They get really good at 1 thing, and then convince themselves they are good at EVERYTHING.
James Watson was a molecular biologist & geneticist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA.

He also stated that blacks were genetically dumber than whites.

"Watson repeatedly asserted that differences in average measured IQ between blacks and whites are due to genetics."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wat … ,_and_race

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson

As a result, he was blacklisted by academia, and became unemployable.  

In order to pay the bills, he auctioned off his Nobel Prize.

A wealthy Russian guy bought it for $5 million, and gave the Nobel Prize back to James Watson, saying that he deserved to keep it.  

The wealthy Russian guy saw the absurdity in western political correctness, and basically gave $5 million to James Watson, so he could live out his life in dignity.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30406322

Nobel Prize winners William Shockley & James Watson have impeccable credentials, have contributed enormously to technology & science & modern civilization, but were cancelled as soon as they pointed out the obvious fact that blacks are dumber than whites.

And yet...

He would give it all up if only he had one of these....

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 wrote:What part was he wrong about?
All of it. But I don't expect you to understand. 

Now tell me I am filth and should be incinerated and get back to whatever it is you do.

Jesus. 

What a shytty argument. Total fail. 

Appeal to authority fallacy and a non sequitur.

 wrote:All of it. But I don't expect you to understand.
Clearly you do not understand. Unsurprising.

So in other words, he was insecure.

Always liked Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, from the era when computing was still a gentleman's pursuit.

> William Shockley won the Nobel Prize in physics, created the semiconductor, and is the reason Silicon Valley even exists. He also said blacks are dumber than whites.

William Shockley won the Nobel Prize in physics, created the semiconductor, and is the reason Silicon Valley even exists. He also said blacks are dumber than whites.

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