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Robert Noyce

1927 - 1990

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Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Noyce has received more than 1,338,077 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Robert Noyce is the 101st most popular inventor (up from 102nd in 2019), the 1,229th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,175th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Inventor.

Robert Noyce was a co-founder of Intel Corporation, an American semiconductor company. He was also the co-inventor of the integrated circuit or microchip.

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  • 61.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Robert Noyce ranks 101 out of 426. Before him are Elisha Otis, Franz Reichelt, Alphonse Bertillon, Johann Maria Farina, Leo Fender, and Momofuku Ando. After him are Louis Le Prince, Jacque Fresco, John Harrison, Edmund Cartwright, Joseph Pilates, and Johann Philipp Reis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Robert Noyce ranks 56. Before him are Stan Getz, F. Sherwood Rowland, Leszek Kołakowski, Mary Higgins Clark, Juan Almeida Bosque, and Alan MacDiarmid. After him are Enzo Bearzot, John Vane, Marvin Minsky, Phil Hill, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, and Lois Maxwell. Among people deceased in 1990, Robert Noyce ranks 36. Before him are Barbara Stanwyck, Bruno Kreisky, Sergio Corbucci, Luigi Nono, Patrick White, and Meir Kahane. After him are Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, Viktor Tsoi, Rex Harrison, Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, Vasili Kuznetsov, and Ugo Tognazzi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Noyce ranks 1,229 out of 20,380. Before him are Tess Gerritsen (1953), Sonny Liston (1932), Izzy Stradlin (1962), Robert Rauschenberg (1925), Scarlett Johansson (1984), and Tyrone Power (1914). After him are Edna Purviance (1895), Blake Edwards (1922), Dick Van Dyke (1925), Robert Reich (1946), Martha Washington (1731), and E. O. Wilson (1929).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Robert Noyce ranks 25. Before him are Josephine Cochrane (1839), Les Paul (1915), George Eastman (1854), Ray Tomlinson (1941), Elisha Otis (1811), and Leo Fender (1909). After him are Jacque Fresco (1916), Lee de Forest (1873), Josiah Warren (1798), Hiram Maxim (1840), Percy Spencer (1894), and Mary Anderson (1862).

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