A great hero from my early adulthood was bob noyce, who invented the silicon chip in 1959. To be fair, Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments had cobbled up a similar chip a year earlier. But Kilby unfortunately had selected a poor substrate material, germanium. It would prove resistant to mass manufacture, unlike Noyce's choice, silicon. That's why the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office acknowledged Kilby and Noyce as the chip's co-inventors.
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