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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bobby beara who wrote (158)	10/15/1999 10:22:00 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

I must go back farther than you, because I would choose Elvis.

To: bobby beara who wrote (158)	10/16/1999 5:34:00 AM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

The name doesn't show up in a search of this subject, but I think it should definitely be included in the top 100: Robert Noyce. He is credited as the co-inventor of the integrated circuit along with Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments. I nominate only Noyce because of the significance of the corporate culture he also helped to cultivate. Noyce was a co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor in Sunnyvale (I believe, although it might have been one of the other valley towns) where he developed his version of the IC. Noyce used silicon for his chip. Kilby used germanium. Kilby himself might deserve a nomination. So might the three Bell Labs employees credited with the invention of the transistor -- Walter Brattain and John Bardeen, the physicists, and especially their supervisor William Shockley who recognized the significance of their discovery and would share with them the Nobel Prize. Shockley left AT&T to found a company in what would become known as Silicon Valley. It was Shockley who invited a young Noyce to join his company in California. Which brings us to the final reason for Noyce's nomination. After leaving Shockley's company and leaving Fairchild, Noyce went on to co-found another company. You might have heard of it. It's called Intel. Edit: And more info on them all here: chips.ibm.com