Jack Kilby
Also known as Jack St. Clair Kilby, Jack S. Kilby, Jack Clair Kilby
American electrical engineer (1923–2005)
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Jack Kilby was an American electrical engineer who lived from 1923 to 2005 and is credited with inventing the integrated circuit, a fundamental component of modern electronics that combines multiple transistors and other elements on a single chip. His invention enabled the development of smaller, more powerful, and more affordable electronic devices that form the basis of computers, smartphones, and countless other technologies we use today.
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- 1923
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- United States
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- 1923-11-08
- Active to
- 2005-06-20
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Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electronics 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.
Kilby was also a co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer, for which he had the patents. He also had patents for seven other inventions.