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William Shockley Jr. of Stanford University was an American physicist who jointly won the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in inventing the transistor. Modern computing and communications would have been unthinkable without Shockley’s work. But the Nobel laureate was also a proponent of eugenics and firmly committed to the racial inferiority of Black people. Shockley was not just a physicist who held racist views.

J. H. Tumlinson, M. G. Klein, R. E. Doolittle, T. L. Ladd, and A. T. Proveaux Abstract References Abstract (Z)- 5-(1-Decenyl)dihydro-2(3H)-furanone, isolated from virgin female Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica) attracted males of the species infield bioassays. However, the synthesized racemic mixture of this compound did not attract male Japanese beetles. The Z and E isomers and the saturated analog of both enantiomers of this compound were synthesized stereospecifically.

Y. Czorlich https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3841-2700, T. Aykanat https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4825-0231, J. Erkinaro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7843-0364, P. Orell https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4294-5048, and C.R. Primmer https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3687-8435 Abstract Supplementary Materials References and Notes Abstract Understanding the drivers of evolution is a fundamental aim in biology.