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Wendell Shockley 1899 - 1968

Wendell Shockley of Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania was born on June 28, 1899, and died at age 68 years old in March 1968.
Wendell Shockley
Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania 19013
June 28, 1899
March 1968
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Wendell Shockley's History: 1899 - 1968

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  • 06/28
    1899

    Birthday

    June 28, 1899
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  • 03/dd
    1968

    Death

    March 1968
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    Wendell Shockley lived 4 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 68.
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In 1899, in the year that Wendell Shockley was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.
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In 1909, Wendell was merely 10 years old when the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.
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