Just read a story I have always been intrigued in the last 30 years, story of the W. Shockley. Shockley, a Nobel-prize laureate in transistor invention and the "grand-father" of Silicon Valley (The "child" of his "Shockley Semiconductor Lab" was Fairchild Semiconductor and the "children" of Fairchild Semiconductor are Intel and many others). In 1980s, I was amazed by his ingenious theory of PN junction. He filed the 1st patent about robotic eyes in 1948 and pursued a career to implement robots and automation but fizzled out. As in my ingrained belief, "God is always fair": Shockley was endowed with incredible IQ but his capricious temper led him nowhere to his coveted goal, a company of his own.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/how-william-shockleys-robot-dream-helped-launch-silicon-valley
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