Jack Kilby
November 8, 1923 –June 20, 2005
Inventor, University teacher, Computer scientist, Photographer, Engineer, Physicist
Lived 81 years
- Born in
- Jefferson City
- Passed away in
- Dallas
Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 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 in 1958. For this invention, Kilby shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Kilby was also a co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer, for which he had the patents. He also had patents for seven other inventions.
Notable works: integrated circuit Awards: IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, Nobel Prize in Physics, Stuart Ballantine Medal, Charles Stark Draper Prize, Harold Pender Award, IEEE David Sarnoff Award, IEEE Medal of Honor, National Medal of Science, National Inventors Hall of Fame Education: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Great Bend High School
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