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Robert Noyce
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American businessman and engineer (1927–1990)
Key facts
- Born
- Robert Norton Noyce , ( 1927-12-12 ) December 12, 1927, Burlington , Iowa , U.S.
- Died
- June 3, 1990 (1990-06-03) (aged 62), Austin , Texas , U.S.
- Education
- Grinnell College ( BA ) , Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( PhD )
- Occupation
- Physicist
- Known for
- Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Founder of Intel
- Successor
- Gordon Moore
- Spouses
- Elizabeth Bottomley ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1953 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1974 ) Ann Bowers ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1974 )
- Awards
- Faraday Medal (1979) , Harold Pender Award (1980) , John Fritz Medal (1989)
- Website
- www .ncfp .org /people /the-noyce-foundation /
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Burlington
- Place of death
- Austin
- Occupation
- computer scientist
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employer
- Fairchild Semiconductor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- physics
- Image
- Robert Noyce with Motherboard 1959.png
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- member of
- Phi Beta Kappa Society
- date of birth
- 1927-12-12
- date of death
- 1990-06-03
- Commons category
- Robert Noyce
- Commons Creator page
- Robert Noyce
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), 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.
Noyce founded The Noyce School of Applied Computing within the College of Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan awarded him the National Medal of Technology, and in 1989, he was inducted into the U.S. Business Hall of Fame, with President George H. W. Bush delivering the keynote. In 1990, he received a Lifetime Achievement Medal alongside Jack Kilby and John Bardeen during the bicentennial celebration of the Patent Act.
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