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Jack Kilby
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American electrical engineer (1923–2005)
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Jack Kilby was born on November 8, 1923, and died on June 20, 2005. He received one Nobel Prize. His Erdős number is 12.
He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection, and the National Medal Of Science collection.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics2000
“for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Jefferson City
- Place of death
- Dallas
- Educated at
- University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Employer
- Texas Instruments
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Washington Award
- Notable work
- integrated circuit
- Field of work
- electrical engineering
- Image
- Jack Kilby 1960s.png
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- date of birth
- 1923-11-08
- date of death
- 2005-06-20
- Erdős number
- 12
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Jack Kilby
- name in native language
- Jack St. Clair Kilby
- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- interested in
- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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