Jack Kilby
Physicist, Inventor
1923 – 2005
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Who was Jack Kilby?
Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 2000.
He is also the inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer.
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- Born
- Nov 8, 1923
Jefferson City - Also known as
- Jack St. Clair Kilby
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Great Bend High School
- Lived in
- Jefferson City
- United States of America
- Died
- Jun 20, 2005
Dallas
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on July 23, 2013
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