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Jack Kilby
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Jack Kilby

1923 – 2005 · aged 82

American electrical engineer (1923–2005)

Born
8 Nov 1923 · Jefferson City
Died
20 Jun 2005 · Dallas

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 94 years
  1. 8 Nov 1923BornBorn in Jefferson City
  2. 1966AwardIEEE David Sarnoff Award
  3. 1966AwardStuart Ballantine Medal
  4. 1969AwardNational Medal of Science
  5. 1978AwardIEEE Cledo Brunetti Award
  6. 1982AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Miami
  7. 1982AwardHolley Medal
  8. 1982AwardNational Inventors Hall of Fame
  9. 1986AwardIEEE Medal of Honor
  10. 1989AwardCharles Stark Draper Prize
  11. 1989AwardHolley Medal
  12. 1990AwardNational Medal of Technology and Innovation
  13. 1993AwardKyoto Prize in Advanced Technology
  14. 20 Jun 2005DiedDied in Dallas

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1923 – 2005).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 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 in 1958. For this invention, Kilby shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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

Text from the Wikipedia article Jack Kilby, CC BY-SA 4.0

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