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Jack Kilby: Pioneer Of The Modern Age
Electrical engineer Jack Kilby laid the foundations for modern information technology.
In he helped to develop the world's first ever microchip. It was a simple device, but it would go on to revolutionise the world.
Having recently been awarded with the Nobel Prize for physics, BBC Science talked to Kilby about the background to his development and how one small chip changed the face of modern microelectronics.
The tyranny of numbers
In July Jack Kilby was working for a small organisation called Texas Instruments.
Jack kilby short biography book
His colleagues were all away on their summer holidays, but Kilby worked on, determined to solve a problem. The puzzle that confronted had arisen from the developments of the transistor by the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Until Bell launched the transistor in , the electronics industry had relied on vacuum tube technology.
However, there were problems with this as it was fragile and bulky.