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Jack Kilby grew up in Great Bend, Kansas and joined TI in Dallas in 1958. During the summer of that year, working with borrowed and improvised equipment, he conceived and built the first electronic circuit in which all of the components, both active and passive, were fabricated in a single piece of semiconductor...
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www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/jackstclair.shtml
www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/jackstclair.shtml
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It was a relatively simple device that Jack Kilby showed to a handful of co-workers gathered in TI's semiconductor lab 50 years ago -- only a transistor and other components on a slice of germanium.
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www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/jackbuilt.shtml
www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/jackbuilt.shtml
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Fascinating facts about Jack Kilby inventor of Integrated Circuits in 1958 and the Hand-held Calculator in 1966. ... Jack Kilby is one of these men. His invention of the monolithic integrated circuit - the microchip - some 40 years ago at Texas Instruments (TI) laid the conceptual and technical foundation for the entire field...
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www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/kilby.htm
www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/kilby.htm
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The Nobel Committee has asked me to discuss my life story, so I guess I should begin at the beginning. ... Jack S. Kilby died on June 20, 2005. ... Jack S. Kilby thumb picture...
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Jack Kilby was a researcher with Texas Instruments in the late 1950’s. At this time, a computer was a huge entity, filling a room in order to be capable of performing relative simple computations. And it was certainly cost-prohibitive for even the wealthiest of households.
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heroesofcapitalism.blogspot.com/2009/05/jack-kilby.html
heroesofcapitalism.blogspot.com/2009/05/jack-kilby.html
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Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce separately invented the IC or integrated circut at the same time. ... Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce ... Jack Kilby, an engineer with a background in ceramic-based silk screen circuit boards and transistor-based hearing aids, started working for Texas Instruments in 1958. A year earlier,
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inventors.about.com/od/istartinventions/a/intergrated_circuit.htm
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Jack S. Kilby ; Born Nov 8 1923 - Died Jun 20 2005 ; Miniaturized Electronic Circuits; Integrated Circuit; Patent Number(s) 3,138,743; Inducted 1982; In 1959 electrical engineer Jack S. Kilby invented the monolithic integrated circuit, which is still widely used in electronic systems.
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As it happened, Jack Kilby did eventually win the Nobel Prize -- although the Royal Swedish Academy didn't award it until more than 40 years after his 1958 breakthrough and after he had received almost every other honor and award an engineer can receive.
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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/AR2005062101646.html
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