Jack Kilby was an American electrical engineer and inventor who is widely credited as the co-inventor of the microchip. He is best known for his work in the development of the first integrated circuit, which revolutionized the electronics industry and changed the
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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.