Editing Sheldon Roberts

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| name        = Sheldon Roberts <!-- include middle initial, if not specified in birth_name -->
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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)<br>[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], (M.S., 1949; Ph.D., 1952) 
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'''C. Sheldon Roberts''' (October 27, 1926 – June 6, 2014)<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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 [[Doctor of Philosophy|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, Santa Clara County, California|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]].

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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]]
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[[Category:Silicon Valley people]]
[[Category:Dow Chemical Company employees]]
[[Category:Scientists at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory]]