# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-kilby
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:59:22.108Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Jack St. Clair Kilby was born November 8, 1923, and spent his career as an electronics engineer chasing miniaturization. In 1958, while working at Texas Instruments, he realized the first integrated circuit — work he shared with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, who arrived at the same breakthrough independently. The invention earned Kilby a share of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics. Along the way he co-invented the handheld calculator and the thermal printer, holding patents for both, and racked up seven other patents before his death on June 20, 2005.