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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 1,249,678 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Robert Noyce is the 102nd most popular inventor (down from 93rd in 2019), the 1,175th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,016th in 2019) and the 24th 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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  • 47

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  • 5.99

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  • 3.91

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Robert Noyce ranks 102 out of 354Before him are Wolfgang von Kempelen, Bob Kahn, Charles-Émile Reynaud, Edmund Cartwright, Léon Theremin, and Henri Coandă. After him are Taiichi Ohno, W. O. Bentley, Jacque Fresco, William Webb Ellis, Joseph Pilates, and Vladimir K. Zworykin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Robert Noyce ranks 53Before him are Harry Markowitz, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, George Andrew Olah, Lois Maxwell, Daniel Keyes, and Phil Hill. After him are Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Sydney Brenner, John Vane, Harry Mulisch, Jacques Mayol, and Maurice Ronet. Among people deceased in 1990, Robert Noyce ranks 35Before him are Bruno Bettelheim, Sergio Corbucci, Luigi Nono, Bruno Kreisky, Capucine, and Edward A. Murphy Jr.. After him are Taiichi Ohno, Ivan Serov, Rex Harrison, Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, Aaron Copland, and Oldřich Nejedlý.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Noyce ranks 1,175 out of 18,182Before him are Scarlett Johansson (1984), Stan Smith (1946), Chesley Sullenberger (1951), Hunter S. Thompson (1937), George Davis Snell (1903), and Phil Hill (1927). After him are John Cena (1977), Dirk Benedict (1945), James Ivory (1928), Cliff Robertson (1923), Tess Gerritsen (1953), and Irving Stone (1903).

Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, Robert Noyce ranks 24Before him are Les Paul (1915), George Eastman (1854), Ray Tomlinson (1941), Elisha Otis (1811), Leo Fender (1909), and Bob Kahn (1938). After him are Jacque Fresco (1916), Percy Spencer (1894), Elias Howe (1819), Richard Jordan Gatling (1818), Lee de Forest (1873), and Elisha Gray (1835).