1923 - 2005
Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part (along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild) 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Kilby has received more than 484,087 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Jack Kilby is the 17th most popular engineer (up from 19th in 2019), the 510th most popular biography from United States (up from 533rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular American Engineer.
Jack Kilby is most famous for inventing the integrated circuit.
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Among engineers, Jack Kilby ranks 17 out of 325. Before him are Anatoly Dyatlov, Otto Lilienthal, André Citroën, Umberto Nobile, Alexei Kosygin, and Jiro Horikoshi. After him are Fritz Todt, Willy Messerschmitt, John Demjanjuk, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Hans Albert Einstein, and Andrei Tupolev.
1931 - 1995
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 11
1848 - 1896
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 12
1878 - 1935
HPI: 75.59
Rank: 13
1885 - 1978
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 14
1904 - 1980
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 15
1903 - 1982
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 16
1923 - 2005
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 17
1891 - 1942
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 18
1898 - 1978
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 19
1920 - 2012
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 20
1916 - 2010
HPI: 73.25
Rank: 21
1904 - 1973
HPI: 73.15
Rank: 22
1888 - 1972
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 23
Among people born in 1923, Jack Kilby ranks 22. Before him are Peter II of Yugoslavia, Franco Zeffirelli, György Ligeti, Mas Oyama, Carroll Shelby, and Marcel Marceau. After him are Lee Teng-hui, Richard Attenborough, Alan Shepard, Yma Sumac, Anne Baxter, and Arvid Carlsson. Among people deceased in 2005, Jack Kilby ranks 15. Before him are Paul Ricœur, Claude Simon, Rafic Hariri, Simon Wiesenthal, Saul Bellow, and Zhao Ziyang. After him are Sister Lúcia, Omar Sívori, Kenzō Tange, Hans Bethe, Philip Johnson, and Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium.
1923 - 1970
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 16
1923 - 2019
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 17
1923 - 2006
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 18
1923 - 1994
HPI: 74.95
Rank: 19
1923 - 2012
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 20
1923 - 2007
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 21
1923 - 2005
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 22
1923 - 2020
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 23
1923 - 2014
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 24
1923 - 1998
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 25
1923 - 2008
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 26
1923 - 1985
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 27
1923 - 2018
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 28
1913 - 2005
HPI: 76.99
Rank: 9
1913 - 2005
HPI: 76.36
Rank: 10
1944 - 2005
HPI: 76.21
Rank: 11
1908 - 2005
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 12
1915 - 2005
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 13
1919 - 2005
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 14
1923 - 2005
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 15
1907 - 2005
HPI: 73.83
Rank: 16
1935 - 2005
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 17
1913 - 2005
HPI: 73.58
Rank: 18
1906 - 2005
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 19
1906 - 2005
HPI: 73.34
Rank: 20
1927 - 2005
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 21
Among people born in United States, Jack Kilby ranks 510 out of 15,968. Before him are Washington Irving (1783), Bill Murray (1950), Kip Thorne (1940), George Peppard (1928), Michelle Pfeiffer (1958), and Terrence Malick (1943). After him are Robert A. Heinlein (1907), Kris Jenner (1955), George A. Romero (1940), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Allen Ginsberg (1926), and William Holden (1918).
1783 - 1859
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 504
1950 - Present
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 505
1940 - Present
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 506
1928 - 1994
HPI: 74.48
Rank: 507
1958 - Present
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 508
1943 - Present
HPI: 74.44
Rank: 509
1923 - 2005
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 510
1907 - 1988
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 511
1955 - Present
HPI: 74.42
Rank: 512
1940 - 2017
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 513
1941 - 2011
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 514
1926 - 1997
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 515
1918 - 1981
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 516
Among engineers born in United States, Jack Kilby ranks 2. Before him are Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856). After him are Howard H. Aiken (1900), Jack Swigert (1931), Henry Gantt (1861), Jimmy Doolittle (1896), Leslie Groves (1896), Vannevar Bush (1890), Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr. (1868), Preston Tucker (1903), J. Walter Christie (1865), and Eugene Stoner (1922).
1856 - 1915
HPI: 78.42
Rank: 1
1923 - 2005
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 2
1900 - 1973
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 3
1931 - 1982
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 4
1861 - 1919
HPI: 69.22
Rank: 5
1896 - 1993
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 6
1896 - 1970
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 7
1890 - 1974
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 8
1868 - 1924
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 9
1903 - 1956
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 10
1865 - 1944
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 11
1922 - 1997
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 12