24 Facts About Bob Noyce

Robert Norton Bob 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.

Bob Noyce is credited with the realization of the first monolithic integrated circuit or microchip, which fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name.

Bob Noyce's father graduated from Doane College, Oberlin College, and the Chicago Theological Seminary and was nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship.

Bob Noyce's was a graduate of Oberlin College and prior to her marriage, she had dreams of becoming a missionary.

When Bob 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.

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Bob Noyce's parents were both religious but Noyce became an agnostic and irreligious in later life.

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

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

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

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

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

Bob Noyce received his doctorate in physics from MIT in 1953.

Bob Noyce 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.

Bob 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.

Bob Noyce's design was made of silicon, whereas Kilby's chip was made of germanium.

Bob Noyce: the visionary, born to inspire; Moore: the virtuoso of technology; and Grove: the technologist turned management scientist.

The relaxed culture that Bob Noyce brought to Intel was a carry-over from his style at Fairchild Semiconductor.

Bob Noyce treated employees as family, rewarding and encouraging teamwork.

Bob Noyce shunned fancy corporate cars, reserved parking spaces, private jets, offices, and furnishings in favor of a less-structured, relaxed working environment in which everyone contributed and no one received lavish benefits.

In 1953, Bob Noyce married Elizabeth Bottomley, who was a 1951 graduate of Tufts University.

Bob Noyce's was the first Director of Personnel for Intel Corporation and the first Vice President of Human Resources for Apple Inc Bob Noyce's currently serves as chair of the Board and the founding trustee of the Noyce Foundation.

Bob Noyce believed that microelectronics would continue to advance in complexity and sophistication well beyond its current state; this led to the question of what use society would make of the technology.

Bob Noyce received the Franklin Institute's Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1966.

Bob Noyce was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980.