Jack Kilby

Born

November 8, 1923

Died

June 20, 2005 (aged 81)

Known as

inventor, university teacher, computer scientist, photographer, engineer, physicist

Jack St. Clair Kilby 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.

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