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Re:Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory by BirAdam on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @05:49PM (#42505508)
It does note his achievements, but had the man had any charisma at all, Silicon Valley might not have been. That the man was repellent is pivotal to the founding of Fairchild and thus all of the fairchildren.
Re:Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory by llama-mini on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:21PM (#42505959)
No, the man's personality is the engine of his achievement.

It's just that ordinary human do not really rewards genius.

For the man being different, he probably can be Gorden Moore, who just noticed a pattern, and then become monumental figure.

Populous rewards popularity, not genius. And being ignored by them is not a failure, it's a necessity of greatness.

Re:Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory by mlinhares on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @10:01PM (#42506549)
Wild that people think only very specific human beings could have done this, there were multiple people working on the same problems, one of them was going to invent the thing, he wasn't the only genius around.

So much so there were plenty of others coming on his wake, creating and contributing even more to the field.

Re:Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @10:07PM (#42506565)
"Greatness" and "repels people so hard that nobody wants to work with him" are not the same thing. Greatness does not require being that abhorrent to others.