Jack St. Clair Kilby was born in Jefferson City, Mo., on Nov. 8, 1923, and grew up in Great Bend, Kan. His father ran a small power company with customers scattered across rural western Kansas.

Texas Instruments commemorated the 50th anniversary of the integrated circuit with the opening Friday of Kilby Labs, honoring Jack Kilby, the Nobel-prize-winning inventor of the seminal electronic ...

In 1958 Jack St. Clair Kilby —from Great Bend, Kan.—created one of the greatest inventions, a great bend, in the history of mankind. Kilby recently had started at Texas Instruments as an ...

June 24, 2005 — -- Jack Kilby was not a household name, but his work is a fixture in the American household. He was the Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the computer chip. Kilby died Monday at ...

Changing the World, the Jack Kilby Way By Ben Worthen Sept. 12, 2008 12:00 am ET Resize ...

In 1958, Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby created the first integrated circuit, an invention that would go on to define modern technology. It became the ancestor of today's microchips, which ...

Electrical engineer Jack Kilby laid the foundations for modern information technology. In 1958 he helped to develop the world's first ever microchip. It was a simple device, but it would go on to ...

Nobel laureate Jack St. Clair Kilby, the Dallas engineer who set off the high-tech revolution with his invention of the semiconductor chip in 1958, died Monday night of non-Hodgkins lymphoma at ...

An integrated circuit that Texas Instruments' Jack Kilby used in 1958 to demonstrate his invention of the new technology is expected to sell for as much as $2 million at auction.

Host Bob Edwards talks with commentator T.R. Reid about Jack Kilby, one of the inventors of the microchip. Kilby may not be as famous as Bill Gates, but he is enjoying a wave of notoriety in his ...

Kilby, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize in physics for his work, died Monday after a battle with cancer, according to Texas Instruments, where Kilby worked for many years. He was 81.