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FAMOUS PERSONALITIES
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Jack Kilby
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Cornelis Dribble.
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Robert Goddard
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jack Kilby went on to pioneer military, industrial, and commercial applications of microchip technology. He headed teams that created the first military system and the first computer incorporating integrated circuits. He invented the handheld calculator (along with Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel).
Detailed explanation-2: -Jack St. Clair Kilby, Nobel Prize-winning engineer and inventor of the first integrated circuit (or microchip), was born on November 8, 1923, in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Detailed explanation-3: -An American engineer, Jack Kilby, invented the integrated circuit in 1958, shortly after he began working at Texas Instruments. The integrated circuit fueled the rise of microelectronics in the latter half of the twentieth century and paved the wary for the Information Age.
Detailed explanation-4: -John Kilby was born on 30 April 1942 in Gee Cross, Cheshire, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Hi-de-Hi! (1980), Alas Smith & Jones (1984) and KYTV (1989).