Jack kilby y robert noyce biography
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Robert Noyce
American physicist and entrepreneur (1927–1990)
Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He was also credited with the realization of the first monolithic integrated circuit or microchip made with silicon, which fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name.[nb 1][1]
Noyce founded The Noyce School of Applied Computing within the College of Engineering at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan awarded him the National Medal of Technology, and in 1989, he was inducted into the U.S. Business Hall of Fame, with President George H. W. Bush delivering the keynote. In 1990, he received a Lifetime Achievement Medal alongside Jack Kilby and John Bardeen during the bicentennial celebration of the Patent Act.
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Jack Kilby
American electrical engineer (1923–2005)
Not to be confused with Jack Kirby.
Jack St. Clair Kilby (8 November 1923 - 20 June 2005) 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 (TI) in 1958.[1]: 22 He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on 10 December 2000.[2]
Kilby was also the co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer, for which he had the patents. He also had patents for seven other inventions.[3]
Early life
[edit]Jack Kilby was born in 1923 in Jefferson City, Missouri, to Hubert and Vina Freitag Kilby. Both parents had Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Illinois. His father was a manager at a local utility company. Kilby grew up and attended school in Great Bend, Kansas, graduating from the Great Bend High School. Today road sig
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Kilby and Noyce (1923-2005)
Robert Noyce ©Kilby and Noyce were electrical engineers who in the late 1950s, working separately, invented the integrated circuit, better known as the microchip.
Jack St Clair Kilby was born on 8 November 1923 in Jefferson City, Missouri, but grew up in Kansas where his father ran an electrical company. He enrolled at the University of Illinois but his studies were interrupted by war service. He graduated in electrical engineering in 1947.
In 1958, Kilby was employed at Texas Instruments (TI) in Dallas. Shortly afterwards he came up with the idea of putting all the elements of an electronic circuit on a single silicon chip. From 1978 to 1985, Kilby was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He officially retired from TI in 1983, but maintained a significant involvement with the company for the rest of his life. During his career he registered more than 60 patents and in 2000 shared the Nobel Prize for Physics. He die