Which Happened First?

Jack Kilby

Jack Kilby
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Jack St. Clair Kilby 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 in 1958. For this invention, Kilby shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. Eugene StonerNovember 22, 1922 – April 24, 1997
  2. Jacques PiccardJuly 28, 1922 – November 1, 2008
  3. Jack Kilby (this page)November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005
  4. Stephanie L. KwolekJuly 31, 1923 – June 18, 2014
  5. Uziel GalDecember 15, 1923 – September 7, 2002
  6. Bette Nesmith GrahamMarch 23, 1924 – May 12, 1980

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