Jack Kilby
Jack St. Clair Kilby 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.
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- Born in
- Jefferson City
- Educated at
- University of Illinois Urbana–ChampaignUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonUniversity of Wisconsin–MilwaukeeGreat Bend High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Physics🏆 IEEE Fellow🏆 National Medal of Science
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1923
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