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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge5/15/2018 4:32:34 pm PDT

re: #232 EPR-radar

Academic freedom sometimes leads to unfortunate/scandalous results. William Shockley was a great physicist who got into ‘race science’ and eugenics late in his career while he was a Stanford professor.

I deny that Shockley was a great physicist. John Bardeen and Walter Brattain worked in his lab when they invented the point-contact transistor. He tried to talk them out of their approach, but didn’t mind sharing their Nobel Prize. (John Bardeen is the only double physics Nobelist.)