Noyce solved some crucial issues for making ICs manufacturable, particularly interconnects, hence his connection to Kilby.
They were born four years apart in two distant places, and yet they were destined to start a technological revolution that changed the world. Without knowing each other, through two independent paths, both invented, almost at the same time, the Integrated Circuit (IC).
Robert Norton NoyceJack Kilby in 1958Jack St Clair Kilby was born November 8, 1923 in Jefferson City, Missouri. In 1947 he received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and later, in 1950, a MSc from the University of Wisconsin.
Robert Norton Noyce was born December 12, 1927 in Burlington, Iowa. He graduated from Grinnell College in 1949 and received his PhD in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953.
Between 1947 and 1958, Jack Kilby worked at the Centralab Division of Globe Union Inc. in Milwaukee. His main responsibility were the design of ceramic-base silk screen circuit boards. Then, in 1958, he joined Texas Instruments in Dallas.
Between 1953 and 1956, Robert Noyce worked as research engineer for Philco Corporation. Then, in 1956 he joined William B. Shockley, at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View, California. In 1957, with other friends, he founded Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation.
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And the rest is history.
