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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Jack Kilby
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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 Technology: A World HistoryDaniel R. Headrick
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Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954View the Source Technology: A World History
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