Jack Kilby

[David Lesher]

JUN. 21 4:28 P.M. ET

Nobel laureate Jack Kilby, whose 1958 invention of the integrated
circuit opened the way for the microchips that are the brains of
today's computers, video games, DVD players and cell phones, has
died after a battle with cancer. He was 81.

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[David Lesher]

Jack Kilby, Touching Lives on Micro and Macro Scales

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By T.R. Reid Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 22, 2005; Page C01

For decades after Jack St. Clair Kilby got the revolutionary idea
that has enhanced daily life for almost everybody on Earth, people
used to tell the inventor of the microchip that he deserved a Nobel
Prize. He always scoffed at the notion. "Those big prizes are for
the advancement of understanding," Kilby would explain in his slow,
plainspoken Kansas way. "They are for scientists, who are motivated
by pure knowledge. But I'm an engineer. I'm motivated by a need to
solve problems, to make something work. For guys like me, the prize
is seeing a successful solution."

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