Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #83: Jack Kilby (1923-2005) Jack Kilby (1923-2005) was an American engineer who invented the monolithic integrated circuit, also known as the microchip. He is also the co-inventor of the handheld calculator and thermal printer His microchip invention, which incorporated all needed electronic components onto a single crystal of silicon, laid the conceptual and technical foundation for the whole field of modern microelectronics. His invention has directly or indirectly affected much of the population of the Earth for the better, giving them capabilities that previous generations could have not imagined. Go to #84: Frank Whittle Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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