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Jack Kilby
Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical 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 8 November 1923 · Died 20 June 2005 · Q182031
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insider.si.edu: Jack Kilby, Manuscript
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2008· 1 entry
The SMU School of Engineering, with the DeGolyer Library and the Library of Congress, hosted a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the birth of the digital age with Kilby's Nobel Prize-winning invention of t
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2005· 5 entries
Texas Instruments created the Historic TI Archives
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InfoWorld: Jack Kilby’s momentous contribution
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The Washington Post: Jack Kilby, Touching Lives on Micro and Macro Scales
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Macworld: Jack Kilby, integrated circuit pioneer, dead at 81
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Died 2005-06-20.
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2000· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2000).
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Awarded Harold Pender Award (2000).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Washington Award (1999).
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology (1993).
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1990· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1990).
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded Charles Stark Draper Prize (1989).
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Won Holley Medal (1989).
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1986· 1 entry
Won IEEE Medal of Honor (1986).
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1982· 3 entries
Won Holley Medal (1982).
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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1982).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Miami (1982).
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (1978).
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1970· 1 entry
Kilby took a leave of absence from TI to work as an independent inventor
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1969· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1969).
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded IEEE David Sarnoff Award (1966).
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Won Stuart Ballantine Medal (1966).
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1948· 1 entry
Kilby married Barbara Annegers
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-11-08.
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