College, is named after him. On December 12, 2011, Noyce was honored with a Google Doodle celebrating the 84th anniversary of his birth. In 2000, Kilby received the Nobel Prize in Physics; in his acceptance ("Nobel Lecture"), he mentions a small number of people whose work contributed to the success of integrated circuits, mentioning Noyce three times. Legacy The Noyce Foundation was founded in 1990 by his family. The foundation was dedicated to improving public education in mathematics and science in grades K-12. The foundation announced that it would end operations in 2015. In 1990, Congress established the Robert Noyce National Math and Science Teachers Corps Act which authorizes awards up to 5,000 scholarships annually to assist individuals in obtaining a teaching degree. These awards are granted to institutions of higher education who administer the projects after successful proposal submissions through the National Science Foundation's Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program ("Noyce"). Pre-service teachers are recruited by their college/university and must be STEM majors. Scholarship recipients to agree to teach science or mathematics in a high-need school districts for at least two years for each fiscal year the recipient received such a scholarship. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) works with the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program to identify and disseminate information about effective practices and strategies for attracting, selecting, and preparing new K-12 STEM teachers and retaining them in the STEM teacher workforce. Patents Noyce was granted 15 patents. Patents are listed in order issued, not filed. Method and apparatus for forming semiconductor structures, filed August 1954, issued February 1959, assigned to Philco Corporation Transistor structure and method, filed April 1957, issued March 1960, assigned to Beckmann Instruments Semiconductor scanning device, filed June 1959, issued November 1960, assigned to Fairchild Semiconductor Transistor structure and method of making the same, filed March 1957, issued January 1961, assigned to Clevite Corporation Semiconductor switching device, filed June 1959, issued February 1961, assigned to Fairchild Semiconductor Semiconductor Device and Lead Structure, filed July 1959, issued April 1961, assigned to Fairchild Semiconductor Field effect transistor, filed January 1958, issued November 1961, assigned to Clevite Corporation Field controlled avalanche semiconductive device, filed February 1958, issued July 1963, assigned to Clevite Corporation Method for fabricating transistors, filed June 1959, issued October 1963, assigned to Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. Transistor structure controlled by an avalanche barrier, filed June 1958, issued November 1963, assigned