Name: The man behind the microchip
Author: Leslie Berlin
Pages read: 125 pgs.
Pages total: 309 pgs.
Robert Noyce has entered into his invention
stage. He has started working for Shockley, a very famous scientist that was
one of the scientists who invented the transistor. Robert Noyce has also been
married to a girl named Elizabeth Bottomley. Life is going overall well for
Robert. Until he decides that he wants something better. He’s the type of guy
who wants to do something for the world not just be the “assistant” of a great
inventor. Him and his co-workers decide to make their own company. This would
be Fairchild semiconductors. It was a great success. The first few years were
slow, they were making a decent profit. Soon things just got out of hand (in a good
way). As soon as the demand for transistors and electronics rose the profits
just got better and better. Soon Robert Noyce became rich. He could now afford
nice things. He was also able to buy a nice house just outside San Francisco.
Things were looking up.
The great human path is where something
starts off looking bad and miserable but if you put the effort in you can
succeed in everything. I can sort of see this in Robert Noyce. When he was
young his family was ok. He had a good childhood and when you look at his early
life you wouldn’t of expected the things that he did. Things might have not
been the best but he did become a millionaire and the co inventor of the
microchip.
When Robert Noyce was young he as an avid
builder. He was able to build a fully functional glider that would be able to
hold a kid in full flight. His parents worked with the church. He had two
brothers named Gaylord and Donald. At a young age he had to move a lot because of
the financial crisis going on at the moment. When he entered high school he was
a genius. He always got top grades in every subject and he was also a ladies
man.
If Robert Noyce wasn’t a builder in his
early life he would have been different. If he hadn’t gone to the high school
that he went to he might of done different things because I think that some
events that happened in his adolescences strongly changed about what he was
going to be.
This is the book about Robert Noyce. This book tells you about how he was able to invent the microchip.
I agree with your view of what the great human path is, it is great to see how some people start from nothing and end up leaving a huge mark on the world. I hope you enjoy reading about him! :D
ReplyDeleteAs Alex mentioned before, I also agree with your view of how this person had a great human path, and I haven't really payed attention to the importance of the microchip until you presented Robert Noyce to us in class a few classes back. I really hope you enjoy the presentation that you will have about him :)
ReplyDeleteHe had a really amazing human path and not many people even know who he is or he even existed only when you mentioned it people really start to think about what significant things he did.
ReplyDeleteI think it's really nice because you are doing a original person. I personally did not know him before you mentioned, but Now I realized that he is a great man.
ReplyDeleteGreat definiton of a self-actualized person. This guys life seems really interesting, hes a good choice hes different from alot of the choices of
ReplyDeleteother people in our class