Article: Nobel Prize for Physics Awarded to Pioneer of Integrated Circuit.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Oct. 11--Early Tuesday morning, as Silicon Valley slept, a Nobel Prize committee in Stockholm performed what might be characterized as a slight rearrangement of seats in the pantheon of technology giants.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded half of this year's Nobel Prize for physics to Jack Kilby for the invention of the integrated circuit -- without honoring Robert Noyce, the Silicon Valley founding father who is widely credited as the co-inventor of the IC.

This was, by all accounts, not an intentional slight, in that the academy does not award prizes posthumously. Noyce -- one of the greatest technology leaders the valley has known -- died ...

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