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Robert Noyce (Robert Norton Noyce) was born on 12 December, 1927 in Burlington, Iowa, U.S., is an American physicist and entrepreneur (1927–1990). Discover Robert Noyce's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

Popular As Robert Norton Noyce
Occupation Physicist
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 12 December 1927
Birthday 12 December
Birthplace Burlington, Iowa, U.S.
Date of death 3 June, 1990
Died Place Austin, Texas, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Elizabeth Bottomley (m. 1953-1974) Ann Bowers (m. 1974)

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1927

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, which fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name.

Noyce was born on December 12, 1927, in Burlington, Iowa, the third of four sons of the Rev. Ralph Brewster Noyce.

His father graduated from Doane College, Oberlin College, and the Chicago Theological Seminary and was also nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship.

His mother, Harriet May Norton, was the daughter of the Rev. Milton J. Norton, a Congregational clergyman, and Louise Hill.

She was a graduate of Oberlin College and prior to her marriage, she had dreams of becoming a missionary.

Journalist Tom Wolfe described her as "an intelligent woman with a commanding will".

Noyce had three siblings: Donald Sterling Noyce, Gaylord Brewster Noyce and Ralph Harold Noyce.

His brother Donald would go on to become a respected professor and associate dean of undergraduate affairs in the UC Berkeley College of Chemistry; Robert later created the Donald Sterling Noyce Prize to reward excellence in undergraduate teaching at Berkeley.

1940

When Noyce was twelve years old in the summer of 1940, he and his brother built a boy-sized aircraft, which they used to fly from the roof of the Grinnell College stables.

Later he built a radio from scratch and motorized his sled by welding a propeller and a motor from an old washing machine to the back of it.

His parents were both religious but Noyce became an agnostic and irreligious in later life.

Noyce grew up in Grinnell, Iowa.

While in high school, he exhibited a talent for mathematics and science and took the Grinnell College freshman physics course in his senior year.

1945

He graduated from Grinnell High School in 1945 and entered Grinnell College in the fall of that year.

1947

He was the star diver on the 1947 Midwest Conference Championship swim team.

While at Grinnell College, Noyce sang, played the oboe and acted.

In Noyce's junior year, he got in trouble for stealing a 25-pound pig from the Grinnell mayor's farm and roasting it at a school luau.

The mayor wrote to his parents stating that “In the agricultural state of Iowa, stealing a domestic animal is a felony which carries a minimum penalty of a year in prison and a fine of one dollar.” Noyce faced expulsion from school but Grant Gale, Noyce's physics professor and president of the college, did not want to lose a student with Noyce's potential.

They compromised with the mayor so that Grinnell would compensate him for the pig, and suspend Noyce for one semester.

1949

He returned in February 1949.

He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in physics and mathematics in 1949.

He also received a single honor from his classmates: the Brown Derby Prize, which recognized "the senior man who earned the best grades with the least amount of work".

While Noyce was an undergraduate, he was fascinated by the field of physics and took a course in the subject that was taught by professor Grant Gale.

Gale obtained two of the very first transistors ever produced by Bell Labs and showed them off to his class.

Noyce was hooked.

Gale suggested that he apply to the doctoral program in physics at MIT, which he did.

Noyce had a mind so quick that his graduate school friends called him "Rapid Robert".

1953

He received his doctorate in physics from MIT in 1953.

After graduating from MIT in 1953, Noyce took a job as a research engineer at the Philco Corporation in Philadelphia.

1956

He left in 1956 to join William Shockley, a co-inventor of the transistor and eventual Nobel Prize winner, at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View, California.

Noyce left a year later with the "traitorous eight" upon having issues with Shockley's management style, and co-founded the influential Fairchild Semiconductor corporation.

According to Sherman Fairchild, Noyce's impassioned presentation of his vision was the reason Fairchild had agreed to create the semiconductor division for the traitorous eight.

1958

After Jack Kilby invented the first hybrid integrated circuit (hybrid IC) in 1958, Noyce in 1959 independently invented a new type of integrated circuit, the monolithic integrated circuit (monolithic IC).

It was more practical than Kilby's implementation.

1961

His brother Gaylord would go on to become a respected professor of practical theology and dean of students at Yale Divinity School; in 1961, while a young professor, he was arrested for being one of the Freedom Riders of the civil rights movement.

Noyce's earliest childhood memory involved beating his father at ping pong and feeling shocked when his mother reacted to the news of his victory with a distracted "Wasn't that nice of Daddy to let you win?"

Even at the age of five, Noyce felt offended by the notion of intentionally losing.

"That's not the game", he sulked to his mother.

"If you're going to play, play to win!"