[sdiy] DSP book recommendation wanted

[David G. Dixon]

Well, whoever invented the transistor, it was one damn fine invention!  And,
in my experience, inventorship is never all that clearcut.


> 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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