[sdiy] DSP book recommendation wanted

[Bradley Slavik]

Perhaps you had better read a a little bit about Shockley then.
It is fairly easy to build a case that he should NOT have been
on the Nobel prize for the transistor. Bardeen YES, Brattain YES,
and there was a chemist who worked with them whose name I am
forgetting that should have been recognized. Shockley sort of
nosed his way into it by brute force. Trying to take credit for
others hard work. By the way, you should be informed that this
man failed to get into Mensa several times and ended his life
calling himself a "race scientist". I have read a LOT of 
biographical information on him. 

No argument about Gibbs however.

Bradley

On Fri 09/09/25 12:48 , "David G. Dixon" dixon at interchange.ubc.ca sent:
> Scott, I think that being "unsung" is the natural fate of our
> biggestinnovators, unfortunately.  I think that Shockley deserves a seat at
> thehead table of the most important innovators of all time, but you never
> hearhis name.  I certainly didn't before I got into this all this stuff. 
> Andyet, his invention (the transistor, for those who don't know) ushered in
> themodern world.
> 
> Being a Chem Eng, one of my all time heroes is J. Willard Gibbs, humble
> Yaleprofessor at the turn of the 20th century.  Anyone involved in process
> engineering of any kind is intimately familiar with his
> earth-shatteringconcepts of chemical thermodynamics, but the man on the street has
> absolutely no idea that he did as much as anyone to usher in the modern
> world.  There are many others.  C'est la vie!
> 
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