Description
The materials consist of photographs, lecture notes, letters, books, and manuscripts documenting Shockley’s career as a mining
engineer and professor at Stanford, including documentation of geology expeditions to Alaska, China and Russia.
Background
William Hillman Shockley (1855-1925) was an American mining engineer and amateur photographer. He worked and traveled in Russia,
Korea, Australia, and China, and was active in the Chinese mining regions during the same approximate period when another
American, Herbert Hoover, also worked as a young mining engineer. Shockley was the father of William B. Shockley, inventor
of the transistor and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1956). He married May Bradford, who had been a federal deputy
surveyor of the mineral lands. The Shockley's son William B. was born in England in 1910; they returned to the U.S. in 1913.
Extent
2.5 Linear Feet
(6 boxes)
Restrictions
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Availability
The materials are open for research use.