Title
Handwritten notes and notebook page copiesCatalog Number
102721290Type
DocumentDescription
These items were found in a folder stored next to Noyce patent notebook #8.Date
ca. 1960Author
Noyce, Robert N. (Robert Norton)Biographical Notes
Robert (Bob) Norton Noyce was born in Burlington, Iowa, in 1927 and grew up in Grinnell, Iowa. He received a B.A. in physics and mathematics from Grinnell College in 1949 and a Ph.D. in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953. William Shockley hired him from Philco Corporation to work at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in 1956. With eight other employees he left to found Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation in 1957. As general manager of the Fairchild semiconductor operation and a vice president of Fairchild Camera and Instrument, he presided over a decade of innovation in semiconductor technology including seminal patents that employed the planar process invented by his colleague Jean Hoerni to create the first planar integrated circuit. In 1968 Noyce co-founded Intel Corporation with Gordon Moore where he served as President until 1975 when he became Chairman of the Board. He spent much of his later career working to improve the international competitiveness of American industry, including founding and serving as chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association. In 1988 Noyce took charge of Sematech, a consortium of semiconductor manufacturers working together and with the United States government. Noyce received numerous awards and honors including the National Medal of Science and would have been a candidate for the 2000 Nobel Prize with Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments, but he died in 1990.Category
NotebooksCollection Title
Fairchild Semiconductor notebooks and technical papersPublications
The author made numerous speeches at conferences and other venues during his tenure at Fairchild; following are identified published documents:Hoerni, J. A. and Noyce, R. N., PN(pi)N switches. IRE Wescon Convention Record. (1958-08): 172-175.
Noyce, R. N., Future trends in semiconductors. Speech given on 1961-05-22.
Noyce, R., Putting integrated electronics to work. 1968 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference: Digest of Technical Papers. vol. XI (1968): 29.
Credit
Gift of Texas Instruments IncorporatedLot Number
X6464.2012Related Records
| 102722911 | Noyce patent notebook (#8) |