Karkau, Isabel Steiner
Isabel Steiner Karkau collection on William Shockley and eugenics, 1966-1973.
This collection pertains to William Shockley's work on heredity, I.Q., and race and includes papers and articles by Shockley, including several presented to the National Academy of Sciences; two issues of the PHI DELTA KAPPAN containing a debate between Shockley and N. L. Gage (Stanford professor of education) on heredity, environment, race, and I.Q., 1972; and clippings on Shockley's views as well as reactions to them, particularly in the academic world. Some of the clippings concern the controversy at Stanford when Shockley's proposed graduate class on dysgenics (1972) was not approved.
Isabel Steiner Karkau was an engineering student at Stanford University in the 1930s. William Shockley was professor of engineering at Stanford (1958-1975) and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, 1956.
Gage, N. L. (Nathaniel Lees), 1917-2008
Shockley, William, 1910-1989-
Eugenics.
Heredity.
Shockley, William, 1910-1989-
AIP-ICOS
Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Stanford, CA 94305, USA