A college professor, her boyfriend and a former psychologist — three friends in a small Georgia town got together one spring night to swim and play and listen to music. Marianne Shockley was a ...

Quite by accident, he and a colleague designed a nuclear reactor that had dire potential. In 1939, much of the physics community was taken by the growing advances toward fission made by European ...

William Shockley spent New Year's Eve alone in a hotel in Chicago. He was there for a Physical Society meeting, but he was most excited about having some time to himself to concentrate on his work.

Shakara Maggitt still marvels at Professor Marianne Shockley's ability to get others to love and accept insects. "I don't know to this day how she actually did it. She just did," Maggitt told "48 ...

Originally Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the company was founded by William Shockley in 1955 in Mountain View, California, eventually considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. Shockley was a ...

Deep inside of us, there is always something more to accomplish. When we think we've reached the top of the mountain, there is always a few more steps to climb. Enter Bellator rising star, Josh ...

Inventor William Shockley won a Nobel Prize for his work on transistors, work that launched the modern electronic age. He also became widely known for controversial ideas on eugenics and race. Joel ...