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Jack Kilby was born on 8 November, 1923 in Jefferson City, Missouri, U.S., is an American electrical engineer (1923–2005). Discover Jack Kilby's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 8 November, 1923
Birthday 8 November
Birthplace Jefferson City, Missouri, U.S.
Date of death 20 June, 2005
Died Place Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1923

Jack St. Clair Kilby (8 November 1923 - 20 June 2005) 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 (TI) in 1958.

Jack Kilby was born in 1923 in Jefferson City, Missouri, to Hubert and Vina Freitag Kilby.

Both parents had Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Illinois.

His father was a manager at a local utility company.

Kilby grew up and attended school in Great Bend, Kansas, graduating from the Great Bend High School.

Today road signs at the entrances to the town commemorate his time there, and the Commons Area at Great Bend High School has been named The Jack Kilby Commons Area.

Kilby received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he was an honorary member of Acacia fraternity.

1947

In 1947, he received a degree in electrical engineering.

1950

He earned his Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1950, while working at Centralab, a division of Globe-Union corporation in Milwaukee.

1958

In mid-1958, Kilby, a newly employed engineer at Texas Instruments (TI), did not yet have the right to a summer vacation.

He spent the summer working on the problem in circuit design that was commonly called the "tyranny of numbers", and he finally came to the conclusion that the manufacturing of circuit components en masse in a single piece of semiconductor material could provide a solution.

On September 12, he presented his findings to company's management, which included Mark Shepherd.

He showed them a piece of germanium with an oscilloscope attached, pressed a switch, and the oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave, proving that his integrated circuit worked, and thus that he had solved the problem.

1959

U.S. Patent 3,138,743 for "Miniaturized Electronic Circuits", the first integrated circuit, was filed on February 6, 1959.

It was notable for having different components (transistors, diodes, resistors, capacitors, etc.) on one single substrate.

Along with Robert Noyce (who independently made a similar circuit a few months later), Kilby is generally credited as co-inventor of the integrated circuit.

Jack Kilby went on to pioneer military, industrial, and commercial applications of microchip technology.

He headed teams that created the first military system and the first computer incorporating integrated circuits.

He invented the handheld calculator (along with Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel ).

1966

Recognition of Kilby's outstanding achievements have been made by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), including the election to IEEE Fellow in 1966, the IEEE David Sarnoff Award in 1966, co-recipient of the first IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award in 1978, the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984 and the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1986.

He was co-recipient of the Franklin Institute’s Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1966.

1967

He was elected to member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 1967 and received the Academy's Vladimir K. Zworykin Award in 1975.

1970

In 1970, he took a leave of absence from TI to work as an independent inventor.

He explored, among other subjects, the use of silicon technology for generating electrical power from sunlight.

Kilby received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1970 and was co-recipient of the first NAE's Charles Stark Draper Prize in 1989.

1978

From 1978 to 1984 he held the position of Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University.

1980

The Kilby Award Foundation was founded in 1980 in his honor, and the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal was created in 1995.

1982

In 1982 and 1989, he received the Holley Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

1983

In 1983, Kilby retired from Texas Instruments.

2000

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on 10 December 2000.

Kilby was also the co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer, for which he had the patents.

He also had patents for seven other inventions.

2005

He died of cancer June 20, 2005 at the age of 81, in Dallas, Texas.

On December 14, 2005, Texas Instruments created the Historic TI Archives.

The Jack Kilby family donated his personal manuscripts and his personal photograph collection to Southern Methodist University (SMU).

The collection will be cataloged and stored at DeGolyer Library, SMU.

2008

In 2008, 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 the integrated circuit.

Symposia and exhibits examined the many ways in which technology and engineers shaped the modern world.

Kilby held an honorary doctorate of science from SMU and was a longtime associate of SMU through the Kilby Foundation.

A statue of Jack Kilby stands in Texas Instruments Plaza on the campus of The University of Texas at Dallas.