C. Sheldon Roberts (born 1926) is a semiconductor pioneer, and member of the Traitorous Eight who founded Silicon Valley. He earned a Bachelor's degree in metallurgical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1948, and a Master's degree and Ph.D. from MIT. He 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, … Wikipedia
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C. Sheldon Roberts Class of 1948 Engineer, Semiconductor Pioneer 1926 - Sheldon Roberts was at the forefront of pioneering research that spawned the microelectronics industry. www.rpi.edu/about/hof/roberts.html
... in 1957, when Gordon Moore, Sheldon Roberts, Eugene Kleiner, Bob Noyce, Victor Grinich, Julius Blank, Jean Hoerni and Jay Lastlater dubbed "The Traitorous Eight" by transistor co-inventor ... www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/2005/pr-fairchild-030905.html
