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, which fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name.
12 December 1927
Born on the same birth day (12 December): Bruce Price • Chris Mullin (politician) • Colin White (ice hockey, born 1977) • Connie Francis • Daniel Agger • Dejene Berhanu • Eddie Kingston • Johan van der Velde • John Sandfield Macdonald • Lonah Chemtai Salpeter • Martin Ferguson (politician) • Mayim Bialik • Mike Golic • Pedro RĂos
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