The inventor of the integrated circuit has died
Sad news – in age 81 The inventor of integrated circuits died of cancer for years, Jack Kilby. This electronic component marked a significant step forward in the construction of electronic devices. The first performance of IO was on September 12 1958.
A pearl is attached to its discovery: while seven thousand five hundred Texas Instruments workers were enjoying their summer vacation, Jack Kilby worked alone in the laboratory on his discovery. As a new employee, he was not entitled to vacation.
Kilby for a lifetime's work (holder of more than six dozen US patents) received a well-deserved reward in the year 2000, when he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
