physicist
Robert Noyce.
American physicist, engineer and entrepreneur (1927–1990), co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel
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About 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.
Everything about Robert Noyce →- Occupation
- physicist, inventor, businessperson, computer scientist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 12, 1927
- Died
- June 3, 1990