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Name: Jack St. Clair Kilby
Birth Date: 1923
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: electrical engineer and inventor

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Biography of Jack St. Clair Kilby
1,405 words, approx. 5 pages
Jack St. Clair Kilby is a pioneer in miniaturized electronics who holds more than sixty patents. He shares credit with Robert Noyce for inventing the integrated circuit chip while employed at Texas Instruments. Kilby also invented the hand-held...
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Biography of Jack St. Clair Kilby
430 words, approx. 1 pages
When he coinvented the integrated circuit, or microchip, Jack Kilby also co-launched the age of modern electronics. He was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, and spent most of his childhood in Great Bend, Kansas. Following in his father's footsteps,...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Jack St. Clair Kilby Summary
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1923- American Electrical Engineer Jack St. Clair Kilby shares credit with the late Robert Noyce (1927-1990) as inventor of the integrated circuit, or microchip, which has been called the most influential invention of the twentieth century. Certainly...
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Jack Kilby Information
1,265 words, approx. 4 pages
Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) is a Nobel Prize laureate in physics in 2000 for his invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 while working at Texas Instruments (TI). He is also the inventor of the handheld calculator...


News and Journals
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The Economist (US)
Jack Kilby.(Obituary)
07/09/2005: 916 words, approx. 3 pages
Jack St. Clair Kilby, co-inventor of the integrated circuit, died on June 20th, aged 81 FEW people ever take a look at the innards of their electronic gadgets. But when a mobile phone comes a cropper, all is revealed. Among the shards of...
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Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Jack S. Kilby
12/01/2007: 1,818 words, approx. 6 pages
8 NOVEMBER 1923 * 20 JUNE 2005 MY CLOSE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION with Jack began when he joined Texas Instruments in May 1958, and for the next twelve years we worked together on the development of the integrated circuit program. After our careers took...
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Investor's Business Daily
True Tech Legends Finally Come Clean On Brillo Box, Spit
10/5/2007: 511 words, approx. 2 pages
Seldom are an industry's pioneers around to dispel or confirm legends that have grown up around them. On Thursday night, three co-founders of the company that has come most closely to defining the birth of Silicon Valley -- Fairchild Semiconductor FCS -- did just that.Legends...
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AP News
Chip-shrinking may be nearing its limits
12/16/2007: 825 words, approx. 3 pages
Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dubbed the "nerve cells" of the information age are starting to show their age.The devices — whose miniaturization over time set in motion...
 


 

Jack Kilby

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