William Shockley and eugenics collection, 1966-1973.

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William Shockley and eugenics collection, 1966-1973.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122510950

This collection pertains to Shockley's work on heredity, I.Q., and race and includes papers and articles by Shockley, including several presented to the National Academy of Sciences; two issues of the PHI DELTA KAPPAN containing a debate between Shockley and N. L. Gage (Stanford professor of education) on heredity, environment, race, and I.Q., 1972; and clippings on Shockley's views as well as reactions to them, particularly in the academic world. Some of the clippings concern the controversy at Stanford when Shockley's proposed graduate class on dysgenics (1972) was not approved.

.25 linear ft.

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6742518

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Gage, N. L. (Nathaniel Lees), 1917-2008

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Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Nathaniel Gage: oral history, 1985. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481433 Professor of education and psychology at Stanford since 1962, co-director of the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching (1965-1968) and chairman of SCRDT's Executive Board (1968- ). From the description of Nathaniel Gage papers, 1948-2001. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122446037 ...

Karkau, Isabel Steiner, collector.

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Isabel Steiner Karkau was an engineering student at Stanford University in the 1930s. William Shockley was professor of engineering at Stanford (1958-1975) and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, 1956. From the description of William Shockley and eugenics collection, 1966-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510950 ...

Shockley, William, 1910-1989

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Died 1989. From the description of Oral history interview with William Shockley, 1974 September 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78821004 American physicist. From the description of William Shockley miscellaneous papers, 1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871662 Professor of engineering at Stanford (1958-1975; emeritus 1975- ). Shockley was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, 1956. From the description of William Shockley paper...

Stanford university

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Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...