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Conwell: "...contact he went to Bardeen to work on the interpretation and suggest further experiments. And Brattain would try to stand up to Shockley, and it was just pathetic. Shockley would just wipe the floor with him. Shockley is a very, very bright man, who definitely-well he went off the deep end in sociological things." Ashrafi: "Was there any manifestation of that, at this stage?" Conwell: "Yes. Yes. He already was talking about eugenics." Ashrafi: "Just to be clear, we're talking about '51 and '52."

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Conwell: "...contact he went to Bardeen to work on the interpretation and suggest further experiments. And Brattain would try to stand up to Shockley, and it was just pathetic. Shockley would just wipe the floor with him. Shockley is a very, very bright man, who definitely-well he went off the deep end in sociological things." Ashrafi: "Was there any manifestation of that, at this stage?" Conwell: "Yes. Yes. He already was talking about eugenics." Ashrafi: "Just to be clear, we're talking about '51 and '52."
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 23-May-2023 14:47:50 UTC Robert McNees
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There is loads of stuff in here. For someone who put up with so much, Conwell is admirably charitable in her descriptions of people and their motivations.
But when the conversation gets around to Shockley she wastes no time explaining that he "went off the deep end."
Conwell explains that Shockley was advocating eugenics earlier than a lot of people realized.

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