Sample Biography of Robert Noyce (1927-1990) Born December 12th, 1927 Burlington, Iowa, “Rapid Robert” Noyce was the youngest of three sons. Raised by a father and mother of the clergy, one can imagine him reciting bible verses between mouthfuls of cereal. As a young child Robert liked to tinker. At age 12, he and his brother Gaylord built a boy-sized aircraft, which they flew off the top of the Grinnell College stables. The girls Equestrian club, had a fright, as Robert came swooping down the field, in front of the stables! During winter, watching kids slide down an icy hill, wasn’t fast enough for Robert. He added a washer machine engine for power, and a propeller for speed. The magazine Popular Science, was his inspiration. He collected …show more content…
At first he stuck to the standard fair-delivering newspapers, working in a flower shop and making special deliveries on his bike, for the post office. Snow removal during the winter, was another money making opportunity. Unsatisfied with his meager earnings, he came up with an idea. He decided to charge his customers a flat-rate, then prayed for mild weather. Not a bad idea, if you can get away with it. Robert followed his two brothers to Grinnell College, where he excelled. He became the leader of the pack. His magnetic personality attracted others. His overwhelming confidence, earned him respect. That said, his wild side of tipping over outhouses, and setting illegal fireworks, got him expelled in 1948. He returned to Grinnell in 1949, and graduated with a double major in math and physics. He became enthralled with Professor Grant Gale, who showed him two of the first transistors that came out of Bell Labs. He was hooked like a fish on the end of a line. He applied to the doctoral program in physics at MIT, and was accepted. In the summer of 1953 Bell Labs, then IBM offered him a research position. He turned down both offers to build transistors for Philco-a manufacturer of radios and
John wanted to go to space again same as Bob. So they had a plan to go to space again. They fixed their spaceship’s engines, windows and they filled the petrol tank with fuel. They also cleaned the spaceship and it looked like new. Bob made an experiment to make the powerful engine even more powerful. John added a massive booster which is seven tons. He also adds a jet engine which is faster than the other one. The two boys helped each other to make their spaceship better.
Second, a science fair was held and only two were competing. One was George Melvil’s The Flying Machine: A System of Low-Resistance Pulleys, and Whit Austin’s Laser Cannon with Tracker. George’s project wasn’t even given a peep from the judges and that when he was trying to get their attention, Susan Singer-Wright, chair of the county commission, said to him that the fair already had a winner.
After graduating from MIT, he went straight into work at Bell Laboratory. He did most of his research in solid state physics, especially vacuum tubes. Most of his theoretical advances led the company to conquer their goal of using electronic switches for telephone exchanges instead of the mechanical switches there were using at the time. Some of the other research he did was on energy bands in solids, order and disorder in alloys, self-diffusion of copper, experiments on photoelectrons in silver chloride, experiment and theory on ferromagnetic domains, and different topics in transistor physics. He also did operations research on individual productivity and the statistics of salary in research laboratories.
...ontinued to work as an engineer, ceasing his career in Baltimore in the early 1930s. He was presented the Franklin Institute's Franklin Medal in 1930. He then retired to Southern Pines, North Carolina, where he died at the age of 90 in 1943.
It's amazing to think that a young boy with just a few years of formal schooling went on to become a creative genius and one of the world's most important inventors, receiving more than 50 patents for devices that dramatically changed, improved and modernized the railway system.
His father had planned for him to follow him in a career in the clergy, but Lee wanted to go to school for science and, in 1893, enrolled at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, one of the few institutions in the United States then offering a first-class scientific education. (Kraeuter, 74). De Forest went on to earn the Ph.D. in physics in 1899, with the help of scholarships, and money his parents made by working odd jobs. By this time he had become interested in electricit...
The Wright Brothers had done other things but were still going to school.They then came back to the models of their flying toys and thought, what if we could build a model big enough and made for us to ride on it?But that was only a dream because there had never been a flying machine for people to ride,but what other people saw as...
Witten attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison for one semester as an economics graduate student before dropping out.[4] He returned to academia, enrolling in applied mathematics at Princeton University in 1973, then shifting departments and receiving a Ph.D. in physics in 1976 under David Gross,[4] the 2004 Nobel laureate in Physics. He held a fellowship at Harvard University (1976–77), was a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows (1977–80), and held a MacArthur Foundation fellowship (1982).
In the summer of 1896, he entered the College of Wooster (Ohio). As a result of long and intense hours of study, his eyesight deteriorated to the point that he was forced to leave college and return to teaching. In 1898, he entered the engineering school at Ohio State, but again his poor eyesight forced him to drop out during his freshman year. For the next two years he worked on a telephone line crew, and then once again entered Ohio State, finally completing his electrical engineering degree in 1904.
Canadian Air Force Office of Public Affairs. (1996). The Flying Career of William Avery Bishop. [WWW Document] Retrieved May 2nd, 2001 from the World Wide Web: http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/comment/bishop.html
At the University of Chicago Edwin studied mathematics and physics. He also played basketball and led his team to a conference championship in 1907. He worked as a lab assistant...
Jeff attended Miami Palmetto high school and was valedictorian of his class. He went to Princeton and planned to study physics. He believed, however, that other physics students were much smarter than him. Therefore, he studied electrical engineering and computer science. He graduated summa cum laude in 1986 with a GPA of 4.3 on a 4.0 scale.
While at MIT he changed majors from mathematics to physics after finding the mathematical courses too easy and rigid. He took Theoretical Physics (a graduate class) his second year. Since there was no quantum mechanics courses offered at MIT (a subject that Feynman was extremely interested about) he and a friend taught themselves what they could from the available texts. Feynman received his B.Sc. in 1939 and then moved to Princeton for his doctorate.
After his four years were over he turned to physics and became a glassblower and instrument maker.
Herald brought the toy boat with him. We walked down the stone path towards Jenny Lynn. I could tell it was Jenny Lynn even though her light green paint had chipped off and the letters along the bow were faded to a light grey. I told my family the story of Jenny Lynn. My son said with joy in his eyes, “Daddy can we take Jenny for a ride?” I did not want to disappoint my eager son but Jenny was in rough shape and did not look like she would run. I replied, “Jenny is very old and she in in rough shape. I will try to get her running tomorrow but I cannot make any promises that we can ride