Jack St. Clair, Kilby [1] ( Eng. Jack St. Clair Kilby , November 8, 1923, Jefferson City - June 20, 2005, Dallas ) - American scientist. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for the invention of an integrated circuit in 1958 while working at Texas Instruments (TI). He is also the inventor of the pocket calculator and thermal printer (1967).
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| English Jack St. Clair kilby | |
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| Date of Birth | November 8, 1923 |
| Place of Birth | Jefferson City , Missouri , United States |
| Date of death | June 20, 2005 (81 years) |
| Place of death | Dallas , Texas , United States |
| A country |  USA |
| Scientific field | physics , electrical engineering |
| Place of work | Texas Instruments |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| Known as | inventor of integrated circuit , pocket calculator and thermal printer |
| Awards and prizes | Stuart Ballantyne Medal (1966) National Science Medal of the United States (1969) Holly Medal (1982, 1989) IEEE Medal of Honor ( 1986 ) The Charles Stark Draper Award (1989) US National Medal for Technology and Innovation (1990) Medal of Progress (Photographic Society of America) (1991) Medal " Pioneer of Computer Technology " (1993) Kyoto Prize (1993) Washington Prize (1999)  Nobel Prize in Physics ( 2000 ) Harold Pender Award (2000) |
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Biography
Born in Jefferson City (Missouri, USA). He graduated from the Great Bend High School in Great Bend, Kansas. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . In 1947, he received a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee , while working for Centralab in Milwaukee .
From 1958 to 1983 he worked at Texas Instruments in Dallas . 1978-1985 professor at the Texas Agricultural and Machine-Building University ( English ). Member of the National Academy of Engineering of the USA (1967). National Science Medal of the United States (1969).
See also
- Pioneer of computer technology
Notes
- ↑ Kilby // The Office of the confiscation - Kirgiz. - M .: The Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2009. - P. 669. - (The Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 t.] / Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004–2017, t. 13). - ISBN 978-5-85270-344-6 .
Links
- "Jack Kilby Video" , a video presentation from Texas Instruments (English) .
- “Jack St. Clair Kilby , biography by Texas Instruments (English) .
- Information from the website of the Nobel Committee (English)
- J.S. Kilby. "The possible becomes real: the invention of integrated circuits." Nobel lecture . UFN , volume 172, issue 9, September 2002
- Oral history interview with Jack S. Kilby - Charles Babbage Institute , University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Interview covers covers his career work, leaving for 1970;
- "Jack Kilby, Touching Lives on Micro and Macro Scales - By TR Reid" , The Washington Post (June 2005) (English) .
- Obituary: The Economist, Jul 7th 2005 (Eng.)
- Jack S. Kilby Patents (Eng.)
- Inventors of the Modern Computer (eng.)
- Kilby statue in Great Bend (eng.)