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Jack Kilby, American engineer and one of the inventors of the integrated circuit, a system of interconnected transistors on a single microchip. In 2000 Kilby was a corecipient, with Herbert Kroemer and Zhores Alferov, of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Kilby was the son of an electrical engineer and,

Jack Kilby, (born Nov. 8, 1923, Jefferson City, Mo., U.S.—died June 20, 2005, Dallas, Texas), U.S. inventor. He studied at the University of Wisconsin. He studied at the University of Wisconsin. In 1958 he joined Texas Instruments; there he built the first integrated circuit , a device in which all of a circuit’s components are integrated ...

Jack S. Kilby was a Nobel laureate who invented the integrated circuit, a vital component in computers and other electronic equipment. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 2000 with Robert Noyce for his part in the discovery of the transistor and the microchip.

Jack Kilby’s demonstration of the first working integrated circuit (IC) in 1958 revolutionized the field of microelectronics.

Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer. He helped discover the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000. [1] Kilby was also the co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer.