William Shockley was born in London to American parents who were in England for several years on business. His father was a mining engineer and his mother a federal deputy surveyor of mineral lands.

With William Shockley's difficult managerial style, working at Shockley Semiconductor became increasingly difficult for the researchers there. In May of 1957, just over a year after the company was ...

Dermot Mulroney and director William Shockley discuss their new western "Long Shadows," in theaters Friday, and its echoes of ...