Jack St. Clair Kilby Tiny Chip Changed the World

Engineer's Tiny Chip Changed the World
Jack St. Clair Kilby won the 2000 Nobel Prize in physics for his 1958
invention of the integrated electronic circuit, which made personal
computers, satellite navigation systems, cell phones and the $200
billion field of microelectronics possible. He invented the hand-held
calculator, which commercialized the microchip, and held more than 60
other patents. "In my opinion, there are only a handful of people
whose works have truly transformed the world and the way we live in
it -- Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers and Jack Kilby,"
Tom Engibous, chairman of Texas Instruments, where Kilby worked for
years, said in a statement. "If there was ever a seminal invention
that transformed not only our industry but our world, it was Jack's
invention of the first integrated circuit." Kilby, 81, died of cancer
Monday at his home in Dallas.
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: Patricia Sullivan]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/AR2005062100783.html
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* Jack Kilby, Touching Lives on Micro and Macro Scales
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/AR2005062101646.html

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