American electrical engineer who invented the integrated circuit at Texas Instruments in 1958 — independently of Robert Noyce at Fairchild — and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for the invention.
Invented the integrated circuit — the chip that allows multiple transistors and electronic components to be fabricated on a single piece of semiconductor material — enabling the miniaturization of electronics that made computers portable and affordable.
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