Jack Kilby
Jack St. Clair Kilby (born November 8, 1923) is a notable American electrical engineer. He invented the integrated circuit in 1958 while working at Texas Instruments. At about the same time Robert Noyce made the same discovery at Fairchild Semiconductor.Jack was born in Jefferson City, Missouri. He spent much of his early life in Great Bend, Kansas (pop. 20,000+) and graduated from Great Bend High School. There is a set of large road signs at the entrances to the town mentioning that he is from there.
He received his undergraduate (BS) degree from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1947 with a degree in Electrical Engineering.
From 1978 to 1985, he was Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for his breakthrough discovery.
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