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   From: mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu   
      
   On 2/13/2026 3:16 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > William Hyde   wrote:   
   >> My google skills are failing me, but I believe that there was at least   
   >> one mid century Nobel winner in physics who went to a fundamentalist church.   
   >   
   > Shockley certainly did.  There may have been others.  Shockley was also a   
   > racist ass.  (You could argue he wasn't really a scientist but an engineer   
   > though.)   
      
   His degrees were in physics, and he shared a physics Nobel with Bardeen   
   and Brattain, who (working independently) used some solid-state theory   
   Shockley had developed to guide their work in creating the first   
   point-contact transistor.   
      
   I'm a physicist, and continue to identify as such in retirement despite   
   spending my last ten years at Xerox doing system engineering.  We're   
   flexible.   
      
   As to religion, I'm a secular humanist who goes to church (Unitarian   
   Universalist).   
      
   > It's hard being human.  You want to be a logical creature as if made in   
   > God's image but it doesn't always work out that way.   
      
   For more on Shockley I can recommend /Broken Genius/ by Joel Shurkin,   
   although the author doesn't seem to have been able to leave out any   
   detail he uncovered, however irrelevant and banal.  And the Shockleys   
   never threw away a document. . . .   
      
   --   
   Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/   
      Nobody believes any more in a moral revival of capitalism.   
                                        - Wolfgang Streeck   
      
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