The Nobel Prize in physics is not awarded posthumously, and so in 2000, it was awarded to Jack Kilby for the invention of the integrated circuit. Kilby publicly credited Noyce as a co-inventor.

Jack Kilby began his career as a rather undistinguished scientist. He couldn't get into MIT, and he got consistently average grades as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois. But grades don't ...

One day in late July, Jack Kilby was sitting alone at Texas Instruments. He had been hired only a couple of months earlier and so he wasn't able to take vacation time when practically everyone ...

In 2000, Kilby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his part in the invention of the integrated circuit, according to TI. Kilby died this week in Dallas at the age of 81.

Kilby, an electrical engineer, had attended a symposium in 1951 at Bell Laboratories, where the invention of the transistor consigned the bulky vacuum tube to the dustbin of electronics history.

Nobel laureate Jack Kilby, whose invention of the integrated circuit opened the way for today’s computers, video games, DVD players, and cell phones, died Monday of cancer. He was 81. In 1958, his ...

Jack Kilby, an inventor at Texas Instruments Inc. who developed the first integrated circuit in 1958, yesterday was jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in physics along with two other ...

Kilby: co-inventor of the integrated circuit. Credit: AP One major challenge was to have the layers perfectly matched to each other with atomically smooth boundaries.

Object Details maker Texas Instruments Description This mounted photograph shows the Texas Instruments laboratory where Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel worked at inventing the handheld ...