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Achievement
Jean Hoerni, Kurt Lehovec, Jack St. Clair Kilby and Robert N. Noyce all four take part in the development of the Integrated Circuit - IC. This happens in the laboratoria of Fairchild Semiconductor and in 1959 they complete the project succesfully. In 1958, September 12, the integrated circuit was developed by a young engineer at Texas Instruments named Jack St. Clair Kilby. He put together a few transistors and capacitors, linking them with a thin layer of silicon, a semiconducting material. The silicon completed the circuit between the electronic components. All the building blocks of an electronic circuit -- transistors, diodes, capacitors, resistors, etc. -- could be placed on a small board and linked. This type of "chip" would revolutionize an industry. Texas Instruments manufactured the first practical silicon chips in 1959.
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Experience 1958-70 5/58-1960 1960-62 1962-67 1967 Oct. 1967 1968 Feb.1970 Nov.1970 1978-84
Honors and awards 1965 - Outstanding Achievement Award, Dallas Section Institute of Electronic and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1966 - Stuart Ballantine Medal, Franklin Institute 1966 - David Sarnoff Award, IEEE 1969 - National Medal of Science 1971 - Alumni Honor Award, College of Engineering, University of Illinois 1973 - Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Illinois 1975 - Vladimir K. Zworykin Award, National Academy of Engineering 1978 - Cledo Brunetti Award, IEEE 1980 - Consumer Electronics Award, IEEE 1982 - Honorary Doctor of Engineering, University of Miami 1982 - Inducted into the National Inventors' Hall of Fame 1983 - Holley Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1986 - Medal of Honor, IEEE 1986 - Honorary Doctor of Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology 1987 - Patrick E. Haggerty Innovation Award, Texas Instruments Incorporated 1988 - Inducted into the Engineering and Science Hall of Fame, Dayton, OH 1988 - Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Illinois 1990 - National Medal of Technology 1993 - Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology 1994 - Honorary Doctor of Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 1995 - Honorary Doctor of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
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