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Baekeland, Leo (Hendrik) (sh) and Kilby, Jack (St. Clair) (sh)


Baekeland, Leo (Hendrik) (sh)




born Nov. 14, 1863, Ghent, Belg.
died Feb. 23, 1944, Beacon, N.Y., U.S.

Belgian-born U.S. industrial chemist.

A teacher of chemistry in Belgium, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1889. He invented Velox, the first commercially successful photographic paper, which could be developed under artificial light, and sold the rights to George Eastman for $1 million in 1899. His search for a substitute for shellac led to the discovery in 1909 of a method of forming a hard thermosetting plastic, which he named Bakelite, produced from formaldehyde and phenol. His discovery helped found the modern plastics industry.


Kilby, Jack (St. Clair) (sh)




born Nov. 8, 1923, Jefferson City, Mo., U.S.

U.S. inventor.

He studied at the University of Wisconsin. In 1958 he joined Texas Instruments; there he built the first integrated circuit, a device in which all of a circuit's components are integrated on a single semiconductor surface. He also coinvented a handheld calculator with a thermal printer that is used in portable data terminals. The owner of more than 60 patents, he received the National Medal of Science (1970), the Kyoto Prize (1993), and the Nobel Prize for Physics (2000), shared with Herbert Kroemer (b. 1928) and Zhores Alferov (b. 1930).