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Call Number: SC0595
Creator:
Karkau, Isabel Steiner, collector.
Creator:
Karkau, Isabel Steiner
Title: William Shockley and eugenics collection
Dates: 1966-1973
Physical Description:
0.25 linear foot
Summary: This collection pertains to 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.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Gift of Eleanor Thompson Wortz, 2000.
This collection is open for research.
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 94304-6064. 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.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
William Shockley and Eugenics Collection (SC0595). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
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.
This collection pertains to 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.
Gage, N.L. (Nathaniel Lees), 1917-
Karkau, Isabel Steiner, collector.
Shockley, William, 1910-
Stanford University--Faculty.
Wortz, Eleanor Thompson
Academic freedom
Eugenics.
Heredity, Human.
Human genetics.