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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.


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Author Bio


  • NameJack Kilby
  • DescriptionAmerican electrical engineer
  • AliasesJack St. Clair Kilby
  • BornNovember 8, 1923
  • DiedJune 20, 2005
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEngineer
  • AwardsIEEE Cledo Brunetti Award; National Medal Of Technology And Innovation; Nobel Prize In Physics; Stuart Ballantine Medal; Charles Stark Draper Prize; Harold Pender Award; IEEE David Sarnoff Award