to Clevite Corporation Method of making a transistor structure (coinventor William Shockley), filed April 1957, issued July 1964, assigned to Clevite Corporation Semiconductor circuit complex having isolation means, filed September 1959, issued September 1964, assigned to Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. Method of forming a semiconductor, filed July 1963, issued May 1965, assigned to Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. Solid state circuit with crossing leads, filed April 1961, issued August 1965, assigned to Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. Trainable system, filed October 1964, issued June 1967, assigned to Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. Note: In 1960 Clevite Corporation acquired Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, a subsidiary of Beckman Instruments, for whom Noyce worked. Notes Citations References Berlin, Leslie The man behind the microchip: Robert Noyce and the invention of Silicon Valley Publisher Oxford University Press US, 2005 Burt, Daniel S. The chronology of American literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004. Jones, Emma C. Brewster. The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: a Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower," ruling elder of the Pilgrim church which founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. New York: Grafton Press, 1908. Lécuyer, Christophe. Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 Published by MIT Press, 2006. Shurkin, Joel N.. Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age Publisher Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 Tedlow, Richard S. Giants of enterprise: seven business innovators and the empires they built Publisher Harper Collins, 2003 Further reading Gaylord, Mary M. Welles. Life and Labors of Rev. Reuben Gaylord Omaha: Rees Printing Company, 1889. Jones, Emma C. Brewster. The Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907: a Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower," ruling elder of the Pilgrim church which founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. New York: Grafton Press, 1908. Wolfe, Tom. Hooking Up New York. Publisher: Macmillan, 2001. Wolfe, Tom. The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce, How the Sun Rose on the Silicon Valley, Esquire Magazine, December 1983, pp. 346–374. External links Noyce biography on PBS.org Noyce biography on IdeaFinder.com Noyce Foundation website Guide to the Robert Noyce Papers at Stanford University Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program 1927 births 1990 deaths American agnostics American technology chief executives American computer businesspeople 20th-century American inventors 20th-century American physicists Businesspeople from California Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Grinnell College alumni IEEE Medal of Honor recipients