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