Texas Instruments engineer and Nobel laureate whose invention of the integrated circuit helped make compact electronic calculators and personal computers possible.
| Biographical Information | |
|---|---|
| Known for | Inventor, Engineer, Visionary |
| Born | November 8, 1923 |
| Died | June 20, 2005 |
Jack St. Clair Kilby joined Texas Instruments in 1958 and, while working alone during the company’s summer shutdown, demonstrated a working integrated circuit made from a single piece of semiconductor material. The invention helped transform electronics by allowing complex circuits to become smaller, cheaper and more reliable.
Kilby later contributed to handheld calculator and thermal-printing technology at TI. Although he was not the designer of the TI-99 computers, the integrated-circuit industry he helped create provided the processors, memory and custom chips on which Texas Instruments built its personal-computer range. He received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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