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Jack Kilby

1923 - 2005

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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 (TI) in 1958.: 22  He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000. Kilby was also the co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer, for which he had the patents. He also had patents for seven other inventions. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jack Kilby is the 20th most popular engineer (up from 21st in 2019), the 722nd most popular biography from United States (down from 597th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Engineer.

Jack Kilby is most famous for inventing the integrated circuit.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Jack Kilby ranks 20 out of 389. Before him are Sergei Korolev, André Citroën, Otto Lilienthal, Umberto Nobile, Fritz Todt, and Anatoly Dyatlov. After him are Andrei Tupolev, Artem Mikoyan, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Banū Mūsā, Leslie Groves, and Hans Albert Einstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Jack Kilby ranks 25. Before him are György Ligeti, Marcel Marceau, Mas Oyama, Queen Anne of Romania, Franco Zeffirelli, and Val Logsdon Fitch. After him are Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Attenborough, Arvid Carlsson, Mauno Koivisto, Alan Shepard, and Morris. Among people deceased in 2005, Jack Kilby ranks 23. Before him are Omar Sívori, Zhao Ziyang, Saul Bellow, Sister Lúcia, Kenzō Tange, and Anne Bancroft. After him are Joseph Rotblat, Ernst Mayr, Zdzisław Beksiński, Ezer Weizman, Aslan Maskhadov, and Ed McBain.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jack Kilby ranks 722 out of 20,380. Before him are Val Logsdon Fitch (1923), William Holden (1918), Harvey Cushing (1869), William Halsey Jr. (1882), Gwen Stefani (1969), and Tony Lip (1930). After him are Margaret Mead (1901), Martin Landau (1928), Francis Fukuyama (1952), James Caan (1940), Donna Summer (1948), and Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Jack Kilby ranks 2. Before him are Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856). After him are Leslie Groves (1896), Howard H. Aiken (1900), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), Henry Gantt (1861), Jack Parsons (1914), Jack Swigert (1931), Vannevar Bush (1890), Donald Wills Douglas Sr. (1892), Jimmy Doolittle (1896), and J. Walter Christie (1865).

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