Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1923, Nov. 8 | Born, Jefferson City, Mo. |
| 1943-1945 | Enlisted in United States Army Signal Corps and later served with the Office of Strategic Services |
| 1947 | B.S., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Ill. |
| 1947-1958 | Engineer, Centralab, a division of Globe-Union Corp., Milwaukee, Wis. |
| 1948 | Married Barbara Annegers |
| 1950 | M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. |
| 1958 | Invented the monolithic integrated circuit |
| 1958-1970 | Engineer, Texas Instruments, responsible for integrated circuit development and applications |
| 1969 | Awarded National Medal of Science |
| 1970 | Director of engineering and technology, Texas Instruments Components Group |
| 1970-circa 1997 | Independent consultant |
| 1978-1984 | Professor of electrical engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Tex. |
| 1982 | Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, United States Patent Office |
| 1989 | Awarded Charles Stark Draper Prize, National Academy of Engineering |
| 1990 | Awarded National Medal of Technology |
| 1993 | Awarded Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology |
| 2000 | Awarded Nobel Prize in physics |
| 2005, June 20 | Died, Dallas, Tex. |