Shockley on Eugenics and Race: The Application of Science to the Solution of Human Problems

By William Shockley

Winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize as leader of the team that invented of the transistor, Professor William Shockley of Stanford University was also a scientific researcher in the fields of intelligence and genetics. Contents include a lengthy preface by renowned Berkeley psychologist Professor Arthur Jensen as well as an introduction by Roger Pearson; an account of Shockley's life history; and a series of Shockley's own papers including his suggestion that the U.S. might consider offering a cash bonus to any younger persons of low IQ who voluntarily agreed to sterilization. This "thinking exercise" suggested that volunteers might be offered a pecuniary award directly related to the extent to which their IQ fell below 100. This and twenty-two of Shockley's original articles on heredity, eugenics, and dysgenic trends in the U.S. ? no longer available elsewhere ? are reprinted in this remarkable volume. SB. 300 pages.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878465031
• ISBN13: 9781878465030
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Scott Townsend Pub
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"