Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip. While Kilby's invention was six months earlier, neither man rejected the title of co-inventor.
He was born in Burlington, Iowa, the youngest of four sons of the Rev. Ralph Brewster Noyce. ...
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Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip. While Kilby's invention was six months earlier, neither man rejected the title of co-inventor.
He was born in Burlington, Iowa, the youngest of four sons of the Rev. Ralph Brewster Noyce. His father was a 1915 graduate of Doane College; Oberlin College, 1920 and Chicago Theological Seminary, 1923. He was a clergyman and the associate superintendent of the Congregational Christian Conference of Iowa in the 1930s and 1940s.
His mother, Harriet May Norton, a 1921 graduate of Oberlin College, was the daughter of the Rev. Milton J. Norton, a Congregational clergyman, and Louise Hill. She has been described as a intelligent woman with a commanding will.
He was a descendant of Governor William Bradford (1590-1657) of the Plymouth...
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