Sheldon Roberts
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| birth_name = C. Sheldon Roberts
| birth_date = {{birth date|1926|10|27}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|06|06|1926|10|27}}
| death_place = McMinnville, Oregon, U.S.
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| occupation = Engineer
| known_for = Semiconductor pioneer
| alma_mater = Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (B.S., metallurgical engineering, 1948)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (M.S., 1949; Ph.D., 1952)
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C. Sheldon Roberts (October 27, 1926 – June 6, 2014){{cite news|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?pid=171272785|title=C. Sheldon Roberts: Obituary|work=Boston Globe|accessdate=November 30, 2014}} was an American semiconductor pioneer, and member of the "traitorous eight" who founded Silicon Valley.
Biography
Roberts earned a Bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1948, and a Master's degree in 1949 and Ph.D. in 1952, from MIT.
Roberts then worked in research at the Naval Research Lab and the Dow Chemical Company. He joined the seminal Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory division of Beckman Instruments in Mountain View, California, but left the company along with other members of the traitorous eight with the backing of Sherman Fairchild to form the influential Fairchild Semiconductor corporation.
Roberts later founded Amelco (known now as Teledyne) with traitorous eight alumni Jean Hoerni and Jay Last.
References
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External links
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- [http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/2005/pr-fairchild-030905.html The Fairchild Chronicles] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015014849/http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/2005/pr-fairchild-030905.html |date=2012-10-15 }}
- [https://www.rpi.edu/dept/metasite/president/bot/roberts.html Profile at Rensselaer]
- [http://www.rpi.edu/about/alumni/inductees/roberts.html Rensselaer Alumni Hall of Fame profile]
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Category:American metallurgists
Category:Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Category:Silicon Valley people