Elizabeth Noyce (néeBottomley; October 7, 1930 – September 18, 1996) was an American philanthropist, and former wife of Fairchild Semiconductor general manager and a founder of Intel Corporation, Robert Noyce.[1]
Noyce was born Elizabeth Bottomley in Auburn, Massachusetts, United States, the daughter of Frank Bottomley and Helen McLaren. She was a 1951 graduate of Tufts University, located in the Boston suburb of Medford.
In the early 1950s, Robert Noyce was working on his doctorate at MIT, in Cambridge near Boston. The couple married in 1953, the year Robert received his PhD.[1]
During this time, the couple lived in Los Altos. They had four children: William B., Pendred, Priscilla, and Margaret. Elizabeth loved New England, so the family acquired a 50-acre coastal summer home in Bremen, Maine. She and the children would summer there.[2] Robert would visit during breaks from Intel.
He also started an extramarital affair with a 28-year-old Intel mask designer, Barbara Maness, conducted as an "open secret" at Intel.[3] Elizabeth learned of it and the marriage ended in divorce in 1975.[when?] Under California's community property law she received half of the couple's assets.[1] Robert later married Ann Bowers, Intel's head of personnel.[4]
Elizabeth then took up full residence in Bremen. She became the area's leading philanthropist and art collector. Among other major gifts, she established the Libra Foundation.[1]
Noyce, a smoker, developed emphysema, and died from a heart attack on September 18, 1996, aged 65, at her home.[1][5]
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^ abcde"Elizabeth B. Noyce, 65, Benefactor of Maine With Vast Settlement From Her Divorce". The New York Times. September 20, 1996. Retrieved April 10, 2010.
^Berlin, Leslie (2005). The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley. Oxford University Press. ISBN0-19-516343-5.[page needed]
State Bids Goodbye to 'Best Friend': Elizabeth Noyce is praised for her Generosity to Maine at a Portland Memorial Service, John Richardson Staff Writer, Portland Press Herald (ME), September 24, 1996. About 1200 people, including school children and four Maine governors, attended. Governor Angus King spoke.
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