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unusual facts about Shockley


Reticon

Co-founder Gene Weckler started Reticon after several years at Shockley and eight years at Fairchild Semiconductor.


Ben Shockley

Ink Pixel Films released a video in July 2012 featuring Shockley and British director Mark Noyce.

Jean Hoerni

But Shockley's strange behavior would compel the so-called 'traitorous eight': Hoerni, Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Last, Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce and Sheldon Roberts, to leave his laboratory and create the Fairchild Semiconductor corporation.

Matthew Hopkins in popular culture

Sarum, the 1987 novel by Edward Rutherfurd, features Hopkins making a brief appearance in Wiltshire, where he becomes involved in a family quarrel and in an apparent attempt to frame Margaret Shockley as a witch.

Ohene

Kawann "Ohene" Shockley was born and raised in the North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Perry Jackson

Jackson, a teammate of Arnie Shockley's from Southwestern Oklahoma State University, used Archie's invitation to try-out for Boston.

Winston Sharples

Sharples married Daisy Shockley in 1931 and had a son, Winston Sharples Jr., who worked with his father as a music editor and eventually became a musical director himself on The Mighty Hercules.


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