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Encyclopedia > Sheldon Roberts

Sheldon Roberts is a semiconductor pioneer, and member of the Traitorous Eight that 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, but left the company along with other members of the Traitorous Eight to form the influential Fairchild Semiconductor corporation.


He later founded Amelco (known now as Teledyne) with Traitorous Eight alumni Jean Hoerni and Jay Last.


External links

  • Profile at Rensselaer (http://www.rpi.edu/Contacts/trustees/roberts.html)

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Roberts' alleged crime was committed in Roxborough, where a 15-year-old girl awoke in her bedroom one night and began bawling like the Queen that a man in her bedroom.
Roberts was found guilty and given the maximum sentence – two years hard labour for breaking and entering (in that order), and two years for indecent assault, the sentences to run concurrently.
Roberts received the notes of evidence and the magistrate's reasons in July 2002.
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