Kilby and Noyce were electrical engineers who in the late 1950s, working separately, invented the integrated circuit, better known as the microchip.Jack St Clair Kilby was born on 8 November 1923 in Jefferson City, Missouri, but grew up in Kansas where his father ran an electrical company. He enrolled at the University of Illinois but his studies were interrupted by war service. He graduated in electrical engineering in 1947. In 1958, Kilby was...
