with her late husband William “Bill” Shockley. The couple’s kids went on to continue growing the family tree. When Nellie was a teenager, she birthed J. Anthony (living, fourth generation).

Founded in 1955, Shockley Semiconductor was the brainchild of William Shockley. When he was ready to leave Bell Labs, he decided to form a company to build transistors. Funded by Beckman ...

William Bradford Shockley clearly was one of the brightest scientists of the 20th century, yet he lived a life of noisy desperation. He was a modern hero taken from one of the ancient Greek ...