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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.
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.
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.
Mar 31, 2017 · Electrical engineer Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit, also known as the microchip. A microchip is a set of interconnected electronic components such as transistors and resistors that are etched or imprinted onto a tiny chip of a semiconducting material, such as silicon or germanium.
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.
An American engineer, Jack Kilby, invented the integrated circuit in 1958, shortly after he began working at Texas Instruments. The magnitude of the invention’s importance is reflected in the fact that in 2000, Kilby shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Zhores Alferov and Herbert Kroemer.
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,...
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...
Jack Kilby. Interview, December 2000. Interview with the 2000 Nobel Laureates in Physics, Zhores I. Alferov, Jack S. Kilby and Herbert Kroemer, 13 December 2000. The interviewer is Joanna Rose, science writer.
Jun 21, 2005 · Microchip pioneer Jack Kilby, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize for co-inventing the microscopic brains powering much of today's digital devices, has died after a brief battle with cancer. He was 81.
