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Jack Kilby, an Uncommon card
Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 59
- Power
- 125
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 52,000
Power 125 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Jack Kilby quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Jack Kilby card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He also had patents for seven other ______.
Answer
inventions. He also had patents for seven other inventions. From the Jack Kilby article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in ____.
Answer
1950s. Jack St. Clair Kilby was an American electrical engineer who took part, along with Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor, in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958. From the Jack Kilby article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- For this invention, Kilby shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Kilby was also a co-inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer, for which he had the patents.
- He also had patents for seven other inventions.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Jack Kilby article was read about 52,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 59: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Jack Kilby
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Jack Kilby (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : James R. Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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