The Cryotron Files: How the Inventor of the Microchip Put Himself In the KGB's Sights

Gerri Chanel

ISBN 10: 178578434X / ISBN 13: 9781785784347

Published by PAPER BACK

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cryotron Files: How the Inventor of the Microchip Put Himself In the KGB's Sights
• Publisher: PAPER BACK
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178578434X
• ISBN 13: 9781785784347
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1753699019.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 47167840
• Signed: 7/28/2025 10:36:59 AM
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Synopsis

Dudley Buck was one of Americaâ€s leading computer scientists, the inventor of the superconducting chip Cryotron that promised ever-smaller computers, and coding systems vital to the space race. In May 1959, after top Soviet scientists visited his lab, he died suddenly. Co-written by his son, this book uses recently declassified documents and Buckâ€s own archive to explain the implications of his discoveries and question his cause of death.