Jack St. Clair Kilby
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 ca...
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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 Be...
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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 In...
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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 ...
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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...
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