Today (June 20, 2005) is the Memorial Day of Jack St. Clair Kilby, the pioneer of the electronic circuit and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Today (June 20, 2005) is the Memorial Day of Jack St. Clair Kilby, the pioneer of the electronic circuit and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics.

 

Jack St. Clair Kilby was born on November 8, 1923, in Jefferson, Missouri to Hubert and Vina Friedak Kilby. Both parents hold bachelor's degrees in science from the University of Illinois. It was his father’s job as a manager of a local electrical company. It brought the family from Jefferson City to Kansas. There he went from manager to application leader. Kilby grew up and attended school in Great Bend, Kansas. Graduated from Great Bend High School. Road signs at the city gates recall the time he was there. Also, the Commons area at Great Bend High School is named The Jack Kilby Commons Area.

 

Kilby received his bachelor of science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There he was an honorary member of the Acacia Brotherhood. In 1947, he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering. He received his master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1950, while working for Centrallab, a division of the Globe-Union Corporation in Milwaukee. In mid-1958, Kilby, a newly hired engineer at Texas Instruments, spent the summer in trouble with a circuit design commonly known as the "tyranny of numbers." And finally concluded that the production of bulk circuit components in a semiconductor material could provide a solution. On September 12, he presented his findings to the company’s management. That includes Mark Sheppard.

 

Kilby showed a piece of germanium attached to an oscilloscope. When a switch was pressed, the oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave. His integrated circuit proved to work. Thus he solved the problem. The first integrated circuit was for "miniatric electronic circuits" in the US. Patent 3,138,743 filed February 6, 1959. Who independently created a similar round a few months later with Robert Noise. Kilby is generally credited as the co-inventor of the integrated circuit. Jack Kilby went on to pioneer the military, industrial and commercial applications of microchip technology. He led the teams that formed the first military organization and the first computer that included integrated rounds. He invented the portable calculator with Jerry Merriman and James von Dassall. He was also responsible for the thermal printer used in early small data terminals.

 

In 1970, he took leave from TI to work as an independent inventor. He explored the use of silicon technology to generate electricity from sunlight. From 1978 to 1984 he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas A&M. In 1983, Kilby retired from Texas Instruments. He was the pioneer in the creation of electrical circuits by placing the electrical components used in microcircuits such as a resistor, capacitor, diode, and transistor in a single bond. Although he was an engineer, he was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for his work on the first invention, based on the volume. He created the set in 1958 while working for Texas Instruments. When talking about him, I would like to mention the name of Robert Naisu, a co-contributor in the same field. Robert Noyes disappeared in 1990; Otherwise, Pallor predicts he would have won the award with Jack Kilby.

 

Nobel laureate Jack St. Clair Kilby died of cancer on June 20, 2005, in Dallas, Texas, USA, at the age of 81. On December 14, 2005, Texas Instruments created the historic TI Archives. Jack Kilby's family donated his personal manuscripts and his personal photo gallery to Southern Methodist University (SMU). The collection will be listed and stored in the decollete Library, SMU. In 2008, the SMU School of Engineering, along with the Decollere Library and the Library of Congress, held a one-year celebration of the 50th anniversary of the birth of the digital age with Kilby's Nobel Prize-winning integrated circuit. Symposia and exhibitions explored the many ways in which technology and engineers shape the modern world.

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