William Shockley
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William Bradford Shockley was an American physicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1
Shockley in 1956
John Bardeen, Shockley (center), and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs, 1948
Russian roulette
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Russian roulette is a potentially lethal game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver, spins the cylinder, places the muzzle against the head or body, and pulls the trigger. If
William Shockley
…Shockley was unhappy in his life and was often psychologically and sometimes physically abusive toward his sons. On one occasion, he reportedly played Russian roulette on himself as part of a suicide attempt. Shockley died of prostate cancer on August 12, 1989, in Stanford, California, at the age of 79. At the time…
The Russian revolver Nagant M1895 is one of the symbols of Russian roulette.