Kilby, Jack St. Clair

Kilby, Jack St. Clair
▪ 2006

      American electronics engineer (b. Nov. 8, 1923, Jefferson City, Mo.—d. June 20, 2005, Dallas, Texas), invented the integrated circuit (IC), which allowed the development of the personal computer and the cell phone and was also used in radios, televisions, and microwave ovens; for this work he was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physics. Kilby studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois (B.S., 1947) and the University of Wisconsin (M.S., 1950). After designing and developing circuits for Globe Union Inc.'s Centralab division in Milwaukee, Wis., for 11 years, Kilby joined (1958) semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) in Dallas. Shortly after his arrival at TI, Kilby designed and demonstrated the first integrated circuit, combining transistors, resistors, and capacitors on a single piece of germanium about the size of a fingernail. Soon afterward Robert Noyce (one of the cofounders of Intel Corp.) devised a similar solution while working for Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. Kilby was also the inventor in 1967, together with Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel, of the first hand-held calculator. Kilby was inducted into the National Inventors' Hall of Fame in 1982. He was also the recipient of the National Medal of Science (1969) and the National Medal of Technology (1990).

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