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Jack Kilby
- Birthdate
- 1923/11/08
- Death date
- 2005/06/20
- Associated organizations
- Texas Instruments
- Fields of study
- Circuitry
- Awards
- IEEE Medal of Honor, Nobel Prize in Physics, National Medal of Technology, National Medal of Science
Biography
Jack Kilby was born in 1923 in Missouri to Hubert and Vina Freitag Kilby.
His father was an executive with the Kansas Power Company. Kilby traveled with his father during vacations and learned that cost was an important variable in engineering solutions, a lesson he kept with him all his life.
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Aware that he wanted to be an engineer by the time he was in high school, he studied engineering at the University of Illinois. His college studies were interrupted by military service during World War II, when he worked in an army radio repair shop in India.
After returning to the United States, he graduated from college and married Barbara Annegers in 1948.
While working at Centralab in Milwaukee designing circuits, Kilby also earned