Jack Kilby

Jack Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000. To congratulate him, American President Bill Clinton wrote, “You can take pride in the knowledge that your work will help to improve lives for generations to come”.

Date of birth:
8th November, 1923
Date of death:
20th June, 2005
"Well, it’s very dangerous to project, but it’s clear that the existing technology has some more years to go."
― Jack Kilby
Topic(s): Technology
"I’m sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper."
― Jack Kilby
Topic(s): Technology
"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."
― Jack Kilby
Topic(s): Computers
"I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers."
― Jack Kilby
Topic(s): Computers

© 2023 BQOTD. All rights reserved.