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Left to Right: Mark Shepherd, Exec VP; Jack Kilby, Deputy Director – SRDL; Richard Petritz, Director – SRDL

Jack Kilby, Integrated Circuit Inventor; winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, June 25, 1970. Image courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Texas Instruments records

Jack Kilby, 

1833: First semiconductor Effect is recorded Faraday appeared in many early photographs, such as this daguerrotype

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A 1914, Belle Epoque reprint of Faraday's 1839 publication Experimental Researches in Electricity

1874: Semiconductor Point-Contact Rectifier Effect is Discovered

 Ferdinand Braun shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi

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1901: Semiconductor Rectifiers Patented as "Cat's Whisker" Detectors

Jagdish Chandra Bose in his laboratory

SETI League photo, used by permission. (http://www.setileague.org)

1926: Field Effect Semiconductor Device Concepts Patented  Julius E. Lilienfeld, passport photo Courtesy of: AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection

1931: "The Theory Of Electronic Semi-Conductors" is Published  A. H. Wilson (later honored as Sir Alan Wilson) in his Cambridge days Courtesy of The Master and Fellows of Trinity College Cambridge.

1940: Discovery of the p-n Junction Russell Ohl in his laboratory at Bell Laboratories © 2006-2007 Alcatel-Lucent. All rights reserved

1948: Conception of the Junction Transistor William Shockley describing junction transistor theory © 2006-2007 Alcatel-Lucent. All rights reserved

William Shockley's classic book on semiconductor theory and practice .Credit: Thomson Learning Global Rights Group

1964: First Commercial MOS IC Introduced   Andy Grove, Bruce Deal, and Ed Snow discuss MOS Technology at the Fairchild Palo Alto R & D laboratory in 1966 Credit: Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corporation

1965: "Moore's Law" Predicts the Future of Integrated Circuits Gordon Moore at Fairchild R & D in 1962

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 1979: Single Chip Digital Signal Processor Introduced Bell Labs DSP-1 device layout from 1979  © 2006-2007 Alcatel-Lucent. All rights reserved

Die photograph of first TMS 320 programmable DSP device  Courtesy of: Texas Instruments, Inc.

John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs, 1948 sources: Wikipedia

A stylized replica of the first transistor invented at Bell Labs on December 23, 1947 sources: Wikipedia