NOYCE, ROBERT

born December 12, 1927, Burlington, Iowa, U.S. died June 3, 1990, Austin, Texas in full Robert Norton Noyce American engineer and coinventor of the integrated circuit, a system of interconnected transistors on a single silicon microchip. Michael Aaron Dennis Additional reading T.R. Reid, The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution (1984; reissued 1986), contains an accessible discussion of Noyce and the invention of the integrated circuit.