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Jack Kilby
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Jack Kilby

Inventor · born November 8, 1923 · died 2005

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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.

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Milestones, by age

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  1. ~46Received the National Medal of Science1969
  2. ~63Received the IEEE Medal of Honor1986
  3. ~67Received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation1990
  4. ~77Received the Nobel Prize in Physics2000

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1989 · United States

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Tara Reid
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