Jack Kilby Death Cause and Date

Jack Kilby's Death

Born (Birthday) November 8, 1923

Death Date June 20, 2005

Age of Death 81 years

Cause of Death Cancer

Profession Inventor

The inventor Jack Kilby died at the age of 81. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Inventor and electrical engineering pioneer who created the first integrated circuit, which paved the way for the microchip. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to science in 2000.

He said in his Nobel Prize speech that after two daughters and five granddaughters, the Kilbys ‘specialized in girls.’

He died of cancer June 20, 2005 at the age of 81, in Dallas, Texas.

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Well, the big products in electronics in the ’50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.

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I think it’s doing very well. I’m pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help.

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They’re very strong in memory. Didn’t do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

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There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.

Jack Kilby Death Cause and Date