William Shockley had a memristor back in the day. His obsession with it led to the departure of "the traitorous 8" and to Fairchild Semi and then intel.
When Shocley died his house was completely full of paper, he kept copies of every reciept, every cancelled check, every letter sent or received. He was one OCD wacko who spent ten years trolling freshman on college campus division shilling racial intelligence disputes.
As to his co invention of the transistor, his weirdness made for partisan disputes about assigning credit for the invention of the transistor.