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Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
a perfectly miserable son of a gun builds Silicon Valley
He was prone to biting and slapping his parents, with his father having written of him “ it is an odd day when he does not break something.” The couple then sent their son to the Homer Avenue School for two years where his behavior improved considerably. Moll also noted that Shockley had hobby pursuits including slight of hand parlor tricks, rock climbing, raising ant colonies, and driving automobiles at high speeds. Unlike the pitch for robotics, Beckman was extremely interested in transistors and other semiconductor products, and the two met in Newport Beach on the 23rd of September in 1955 to sign the contracts that would start the company.
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