From: http://www.aip.org/history/spr97/shockgrp.htm Courtesy Intel  Corporation From: Bo Lojek: History of Semiconductor Engineering (click to enlarge) Two versions of the Intel-made-famous photo of the staff of the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory toasting their leader at a luncheon on the day after the announcement of the Nobel Prize honoring the inventors of the transistor (John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley).  At table L-R: Gordon Moore, Sheldon Roberts, Victor Jones, and Shockley.  Smoot Horsley stands at far left;  Eugene Kleiner is in the immediate foreground, Robert Noyce is fourth from left, immediately behind Jones, Jay Last is at the far right.

The oral history Gordon Moore gave to the Silicon Genesis project  (Stanford University Libraries) is quite insightful on the the "Shockley experience."

Leslie Berlin's marvelous biography on Bob Noyce, The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley, includes a insightful appraisal of the pivotal role of the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in the history of Silicon Valley.

Randall MacLowry's recent The American Experience: Silicon Valley does a good job telling much of the story.

•  Remarkable Engineers: From Riquet to Shannon gives an interesting view of Shockley's family history and private life.  It also it posits the view that his behavior as a child and after middle age, suggests a personality disorder on the autistic spectrum. Its technical and business history is pretty weak.
  
  
• William B. Shockley NYT Obituary
  
  
• A letter from John Bardeen to M. J. Kelly (May 24, 1951) which gives a profoundly sensitive view of the problems of working with/for Shockley.
  
  
• Joel N. Shurkin's Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age (see a January 30, 2007 email to Shurkin commenting on this book).
  
  
• Robery Noyce and Fairchild Semiconductor, 1957-1968  Business History Review; Boston; Spring 2001; Leslie R Berlin
  
  
• Chemical Heritage Foundation Oral History:  R. Victor Jones  (Local Copy) An interview conducted by David C. Brock on 18 April 2006 which recounts Jones's experiences at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory 1955-57
  
  
• Bo Lojek's History of Semiconductor Engineering (2007) is an extensive, valuable reference on the early days of semiconductor development.  In particular, the treatment of the history of the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory is pretty accurate. 
  
• Chemical Heritage Foundation Oral History:  Morris Tanenbaum is an incredibly important, but genernally ignored, overview of the evolution of techniques relevant to the history of integrated circuits.  Tanenbaum makes clear (and I believe it to be true) that everything was in place at Bell Telephone Laboratory - particularly, the technology associated with the development  of the mesa transistor - to have developed integrated circuits, perhaps, five years or so before the Fairchild work.  However, it is clear from Tanenbaum that the motivation didn't seem to be there.  I guess that was Shockley's point - the anti-trust sensitive environment at BTL stifled innovation.  Hunger works?
  
  This interview was particularly interesting to me since Tanenbaum implies that my academic benefactor - Robert L.Wallace - was eager to make some kind of integrated circuit with the mesa transistor technology.  Mr. Wallace, who rose to high administrative rank BTL eventually funded the Harvard professorial chair that I held for twenty one years and is now held by Federico Capasso.