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- Aug. 28, 1989: Died:William Shockley
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 28, 1989 World War II:50th Anniversary
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 61
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- <p> DIED. William Shockley, 79, physicist who shared the Nobel
- Prize in 1956 for his part in inventing the transistor, the
- device that made modern electronics possible; in Palo Alto,
- Calif. In the mid-1960s he ventured controversially into racist
- genetic theory, arguing that whites in general are superior in
- intelligence to blacks and proposing that people with low IQs
- or genetically transmitted diseases be paid to be sterilized.
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