Name: Jack St. Clair Kilby

Born: November 8, 1923, Jefferson City, Missouri, USA

Death: June 20, 2005 (Age: 82)

  • Conceived and built the first integrated circuit.
  • Developed and demonstrated a microchip on September 12, 1958.
  • Co-invented the hand-held calculator and thermal printer.

Honors and awards

  • Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (1982).
  • Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (2000).
  • Robert Noyce