“William Shockley held more than 50 patents for electronic devices and by one estimate was personally responsible for nearly half the worthwhile ideas in solid-state electronics in the field’s first dozen years. He chose the Bay Area as the home for his eponymous company because his mother lived in Palo Alto and because the electronics industry — seeded by World War II and nurtured by Frederick Terman at Stanford — had already begun to take root in the valley’s famously fertile soil.”
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