[2] Noyes specialized in several areas of research, including the relativistic few-body problem in nuclear and particle physics.
[2] Noyes earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950[2] doing research under the direction of Robert Serber with Geoffrey Chew as his advisor.
After earning his Ph.D., Noyes spent a postdoctoral year on a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Birmingham, England.
During a sabbatical from his work at Lawrence Livermore in 1957 and 1958, Noyes was Leverhulme Trust Lecturer in the Experimental Physics Department of the University of Liverpool.
[4] In 1979 he received an Alexander von Humboldt U.S. Senior Scientist Award, primarily to continue his theoretical work on the quantum mechanical three-body problem for strongly interacting particles.