The Cryotron Files
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The Cryotron Files

The Untold Story of Dudley Buck, Cold War Computer Scientist and Microchip Pioneer

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The Cryotron Files

The Untold Story of Dudley Buck, Cold War Computer Scientist and Microchip Pioneer

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The "fascinating [and] informative" biography of a pioneering American computer scientist and his mysterious death during the Cold War ( The Scotsman, UK). MIT professor Dudley Allen Buck was a brilliant young scientist on the cusp of fame and fortune when he died of mysterious causes in 1959. His latest invention, the Cryotron, was an early form of microchip that would have greatly advance ballistic missile technology. Shortly before Dudley's death, he was visited by a group of Soviet computer experts. On the day that he died from a sudden bout of pneumonia, a close colleague of his was also found dead from similar causes. Some wonder if their deaths were linked. Dudley's son Douglas was never satisfied with the explanation of his father's death. He's spent more than twenty years investigating it, acquiring his father's lab books, diaries, correspondence, research papers and patent filings. Armed with this research, Douglas and award-winning journalist Iain Dey tell the story of Dudley's life and groundbreaking work. The Cryotron Files is at once a gripping history of America's Cold War era computer scientists, the dramatic personal story of Dudley Buck, and an eye-opening investigation into his mysterious death.

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Publisher
ABRAMS Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781468315783
Topic
Technology & Engineering
Subtopic
Science & Technology Biographies
Index
Technology & Engineering

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. COPYRIGHT
  3. DEDICATION
  4. CONTENTS
  5. 1 Project Lightning
  6. 2 Santa Barbara Sound Laboratories
  7. 3 The V-12 Program
  8. 4 Seesaw
  9. 5 Operation Rusty
  10. 6 Project Whirlwind
  11. 7 Memory
  12. 8 Forging Bonds
  13. 9 Project Nomad
  14. 10 Two Small Wires
  15. 11 The Cryotron
  16. 12 Lab Rats
  17. 13 The Missile Gap
  18. 14 Fame
  19. 15 The Post-Sputnik Effect
  20. 16 A Reciprocal Arrangement
  21. 17 The Missile Men
  22. 18 The Russians have Landed
  23. 19 A Package
  24. 20 The Extra Pieces of the Puzzle
  25. 21 Postscript
  26. LIST OF INTERVIEWEES
  27. CHAPTER NOTES
  28. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  29. INDEX
  30. ABOUT THE AUTHOR