Jack Kilby was an American electrical engineer at Texas Instruments who built the first working integrated circuit, fabricating a transistor and other components on a single piece of germanium, and demonstrated it on September 12, 1958. He received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention.
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Co-invented the integrated circuit.
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Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors
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Source Jack Kilby (Wikipedia)
Source Technology: A World HistoryDaniel R. Headrick
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1. A History of Technology
Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954- Birth Year: 1923
- Death Year: 2005
- Nationality: American
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was an American electrical engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit
- In Group: Semiconductor and Computer Pioneers, lead paragraph: semiconductor or foundational computing advance stated in own article
Invented: Integrated Circuit, Lead section
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.
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