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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.
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Jun 20, 2012 · 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. I grew up among the industrious descendents of the western settlers of the American Great Plains.
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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Jun 20, 2005 · Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. Jack S. Kilby. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2000. Born: 8 November 1923, Jefferson City, MO, USA. Died: 20 June 2005, Dallas, TX, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, USA.
Learn how Jack Kilby developed the world's first ever microchip in 1958 and how it revolutionised the technology industry. Listen to his interview with BBC Science and read about his life and achievements.
Jun 22, 2005 · Jack S. Kilby, an electrical engineer whose invention of the integrated circuit gave rise to the information age and heralded an explosion of consumer electronics products in the last 50 years,...
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Jack S. Kilby held his Nobel Lecture on 8 December 2000, at Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was presented by Professor Stig Hagström. Summary: In seeking practical solutions to replace the vacuum tube as a switch or amplifier for controlling the flow of electrons, Bell Labs successfully used semiconductor materials to create the ...
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