Ralph Brewster Noyce Research Paper
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Robert Noyce was born in the small town of Grinnell, Iowa, on December 12, 1927, into a family with a tradition of men serving as teachers, ministers, or both. He was the third of four sons of the Rev. Ralph Brewster Noyce and Harriet May Norton.
From a young age Noyce showed his competiveness and entrepreneurial mind, his earliest childhood memory involved beating his father in a game of ping pong and feeling absolutely shocked when his mother reacted to the news of his victory “Wasn't that nice of Daddy to let you win?". The 5 year old Noyce felt offended by the notion of intentionally losing at anything. "That's not the game", he sulked to his mother. "If you're going to play, play to win!” At the age of 12, he was procuring flat-rate