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Jack Kilby

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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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1923 1
Death Year
2005 1
Nationality
American 1
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 Jack Kilby (Wikipedia)
Source Jack Kilby (Wikipedia)
Source Technology: A World HistoryDaniel R. Headrick
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Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editorstier 1

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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, 1954View the Source
Technology: A World History
Daniel R. Headrick, Oxford University Press, 2009View the Source
Jack Kilby (Wikipedia)
  • 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.
  • Invented: Electronic Calculator, Lead paragraph
    Kilby was also a co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer, for which he had the patents.
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