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Robert Noyce
Robert Norton Noyce, nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He was also credited with the realization of the first monolithic integrated circuit or microchip made with silicon, which fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name.
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business · American physicist and entrepreneur (1927–1990) · physicist · inventor · businessperson · computer scientist · also Robert Noyce, Robert Norton Noyce, Robert N. Noyce, Noyce
Born 12 December 1927 · Died 3 June 1990 · Q241735
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: The Intel trinity : how Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove built the world's most important company / Michael S. Malone
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2011· 1 entry
Noyce was honored with a Google Doodle celebrating the 84th anniversary of his birth
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2005· 1 entry
Tampa Bay Times: Robert Noyce, 62, electronics leader
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2000· 1 entry
Kilby received the Nobel Prize in Physics; in his acceptance ("Nobel Lecture"), he mentions a small number of people whose work contributed to the success of integrated circuits, mentioning Noyce three times
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1990· 7 entries
And later died at the Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas
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Died 1990-06-03.
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Noyce – along with, among others, Jack Kilby and transistor inventor John Bardeen – received a "Lifetime Achievement Medal" during the bicentennial celebration of the Patent Act
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Received a Lifetime Achievement Medal alongside Jack Kilby and John Bardeen during the bicentennial celebration of the Patent Act
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She was a founding trustee and served as chair of the board for the Noyce Foundation, founded in 1990.
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“Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up.”
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Congress established the Robert Noyce National Math and Science Teachers Corps Act which authorizes awards up to 5,000 scholarships annually to assist individuals in obtaining a teaching degree
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1989· 2 entries
Won John Fritz Medal (1989).
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Awarded Charles Stark Draper Prize (1989).
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1987· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1987).
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President Ronald Reagan awarded him the National Medal of Technology, and in 1989, he was inducted into the U
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1983).
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded IRI Achievement Award (1982).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Harold Pender Award (1980).
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1979· 3 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1979).
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Won Faraday Medal (1979).
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Was awarded the National Medal of Science
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1978· 4 entries
Awarded IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (1978).
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Won IEEE Medal of Honor (1978).
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Awarded Harry H. Goode Memorial Award (1978).
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"for his contributions to the silicon integrated circuit, a cornerstone of modern electronics
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1974· 1 entry
Noyce married Ann Schmeltz Bowers
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1966· 1 entry
Won Stuart Ballantine Medal (1966).
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1961· 1 entry
While a young professor, he was arrested for being one of the Freedom Riders of the civil rights movement
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1960· 1 entry
Clevite Corporation acquired Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, a subsidiary of Beckman Instruments, for whom Noyce worked
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1958· 1 entry
Noyce in 1959 independently invented a new type of integrated circuit, the monolithic integrated circuit (monolithic IC)
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1956· 1 entry
To join William Shockley, a co-inventor of the transistor and eventual Nobel Prize winner, at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View, California
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1953· 3 entries
Noyce married Elizabeth Bottomley, who was a 1951 graduate of Tufts University
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Noyce took a job as a research engineer at the Philco Corporation in Philadelphia
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Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (1953).
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1949· 1 entry
Studied at Grinnell College, Bachelor of Arts (1949).
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1945· 1 entry
And entered Grinnell College in the fall of that year
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1927· 2 entries
In Burlington, Iowa, the third of four sons of the Rev
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Born 1927-12-12.
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