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    Texas Instruments. Jack St. Clair Kilby (8 November 1923 - 20 June 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. [1] : 22 He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on 10 December 2000.

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  2. Apr 24, 2024 · Jack Kilby was an American engineer and one of the inventors of the integrated circuit, a system of interconnected transistors on a single microchip. In 2000, Kilby was a corecipient, with Herbert Kroemer and Zhores Alferov, of the Nobel Prize for Physics.

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  3. Jack Kilby was born on November 8 1923 in Jefferson City, Missouri. Kilby was raised in Great Bend, Kansas. He earned a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and a M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin. In 1947, he began working for Globe Union of Milwaukee, where he designed ...

  4. Electrical engineer Jack Kilby laid the foundations for modern information technology. In 1958 he helped to develop the world's first ever microchip. It was a simple device, but it would go on to ...

  5. Sep 16, 2017 · Jack Kilby began his career at Texas Instruments in 1958, where he went on to invent arguably the most important invention of the 20th century: the integrated circuit, also known as the microchip. The integrated circuit allowed for the miniaturization of electronic devices, which makes most of our modern consumer electronic devices possible.

  6. Nov 19, 2023 · Jack Kilby (1923-2005) was an American electrical engineer who spent most of his career working at Texas Instruments. He is best known for inventing the integrated circuit in 1958. This milestone made it possible to cram an entire electronic circuit with multiple components (transistors, resistors, capacitors) into a tiny chip made of ...

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  8. Jack Kilby Biographical . T he Nobel Committee has asked me to discuss my life story, so I guess I should begin at the beginning.. I was born in 1923 in Great Bend, Kansas, which got its name because the town was built at the spot where the Arkansas River bends in the middle of the state.

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