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Other firms were started by Stanford University professors. William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor, taught electrical engineering at Stanford. Eight alumni of Shockley Transistor Corp., which he founded in 1956, went on to form Fairchild Camera and Instrument, which launched the microchip industry. Some 53 so-called Fairchildren who left the firm have started their own semiconductor companies...
Harold W. Fairchild Jr. Baltimore...
DIED. Louis W. Fairchild, 80, former chairman of Fairchild Publications (Women's Wear Daily, W), the firm founded by his father Edmund and uncle Louis and now headed by his son John, though it was acquired by Capital Cities Communications in 1968; in Hanover...
...joined Rosovsky and Ptashne in thanking the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, Inc. for its $5 million grant to the University towards the new building. Matching funds from a National Cancer Institute grant will finance the rest...
Watson, the keynote speaker, traced his involvement with the Biology department beginning in 1955. Saying that "Harvard had been filled by famous men, and I wanted to be one of them," Watson described his participation in the growth of Harvard biochemistry and said the Fairchild building should help give undergraduates a better understanding of the discipline