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Jack Kilby

1923 - 2005

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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.: 22  He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on 10 December 2000. Kilby was also the co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer, for which he had the patents. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Kilby has received more than 808,777 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Jack Kilby is the 21st most popular engineer (down from 19th in 2019), the 597th most popular biography from United States (up from 613th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Engineer.

Jack Kilby is most famous for inventing the integrated circuit.

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  • 65.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 75

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Jack Kilby ranks 21 out of 389. Before him are Leslie Groves, Anatoly Dyatlov, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Fritz Todt, José Echegaray, and Hans Albert Einstein. After him are Jiro Horikoshi, Andrei Tupolev, Artem Mikoyan, August Horch, Willy Messerschmitt, and Abram Petrovich Gannibal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Jack Kilby ranks 23. Before him are Mas Oyama, György Ligeti, Val Logsdon Fitch, Roy Lichtenstein, Carroll Shelby, and Franco Zeffirelli. After him are Richard Attenborough, Yma Sumac, Lee Teng-hui, Bert Trautmann, Alan Shepard, and Antoni Tàpies. Among people deceased in 2005, Jack Kilby ranks 20. Before him are Rafic Hariri, Omar Sívori, Ezer Weizman, Kenzō Tange, Zhao Ziyang, and Zdzisław Beksiński. After him are Joseph Rotblat, Aslan Maskhadov, Sister Lúcia, Saul Bellow, James Callaghan, and Anne Bancroft.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jack Kilby ranks 597 out of 20,380. Before him are Boris Johnson (1964), James Baldwin (1924), Edward Adelbert Doisy (1893), Robert Kardashian (1944), Ellen Burstyn (1932), and Sugar Ray Robinson (1921). After him are Allen Ginsberg (1926), Georgia O'Keeffe (1887), Jim Jarmusch (1953), Art Garfunkel (1941), Goldie Hawn (1945), and Ellen G. White (1827).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Jack Kilby ranks 3. Before him are Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856), and Leslie Groves (1896). After him are Howard H. Aiken (1900), Vannevar Bush (1890), Henry Gantt (1861), Jimmy Doolittle (1896), Jack Swigert (1931), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), J. Walter Christie (1865), Joseph Strauss (1870), and Eugene Stoner (1922).

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