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Nature has color-coded groups of individuals so that statistically reliable predictions of their adaptability to intellectual rewarding and effective lives can easily be made and profitably used by the pragmatic man-in-the street.
William Shockley
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William Shockley
Age: 79 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1989
Died: August 12
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Physicist
Scientist
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London
England
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