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.
20 Facts About Jack Kilby
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Jack Kilby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10,2000.
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Jack Kilby was born in 1923 in Jefferson City, Missouri to Hubert and Vina Freitag Kilby.
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Jack Kilby's father was a manager at a local utility company.
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Jack Kilby grew up and attended school in Great Bend, Kansas, graduating from the Great Bend High School.
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Jack Kilby 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.
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Jack Kilby 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.
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Jack Kilby went on to pioneer military, industrial, and commercial applications of microchip technology.
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Jack Kilby headed teams that created the first military system and the first computer incorporating integrated circuits.
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Jack Kilby was responsible for the thermal printer that was used in early portable data terminals.
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Jack Kilby explored, among other subjects, the use of silicon technology for generating electrical power from sunlight.
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Jack Kilby died of cancer June 20,2005 at the age of 81, in Dallas, Texas.
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The Jack Kilby family donated his personal manuscripts and his personal photograph collection to Southern Methodist University.
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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 Jack Kilby's Nobel Prize-winning invention of the integrated circuit.
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Jack Kilby held an honorary doctorate of science from SMU and was a longtime associate of SMU through the Jack Kilby Foundation.
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Jack Kilby was co-recipient of the Franklin Institute's Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1966.
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Jack Kilby was elected to member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1967 and received the Academy's Vladimir K Zworykin Award in 1975.
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Jack Kilby was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2001.
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Jack Kilby is the recipient of the America's most prestigious honors in science and engineering: the National Medal of Science in 1969, and the National Medal of Technology in 1990.
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In 2000, Jack Kilby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his breakthrough discovery, and delivered his personal view of the industry and its history in his acceptance speech.