Engineers

Jack Kilby

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@misc{technologyandengineeringatlas-jack-kilby,
  author = {Technology and Engineering Atlas},
  title = {Jack Kilby},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://technology.interactiveatlas.org/engineers/jack-kilby},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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.

Facts

Birth Year

1923 1

Death Year

2005 1

Nationality

American 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Field

Electrical Engineering

Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors

Invented

The Integrated Circuit

Source Technology: A World HistoryDaniel R. Headrick

Sources

1. A History of Technology

Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954

Technology: A World History

Daniel R. Headrick, Oxford University Press, 2009

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