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Robert Noyce

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Robert Noyce was an American physicist and co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and later Intel who, independently of Jack Kilby, developed a practical silicon-based integrated circuit in 1959 that proved far easier to manufacture than Kilby's germanium device and became the industry standard. He died in 1990, ten years before the Nobel Prize recognized the invention.

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Birth Year
1927 1
Death Year
1990 1
Nationality
American 1
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In Field

Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors

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Source Technology: A World HistoryDaniel R. Headrick
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1. A History of Technology
Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954
Technology: A World History
Daniel R. Headrick, Oxford University Press, 2009
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