Jack Kilby is dead

Jack Kilby, the inventor of IC is dead. Well, i hadnt known much abt him before i chanced upon this game at www.nobelprize.org. I was really surprised at the number of educational games that this site has. The Techville game that i played there introduced me to this character Jack Kilby and his inventions. I thought he was already dead, like most other scientists and inventors. This thought stems frm the fact that most of the inventors that we had read abt during our school days werent alive then! Somebody who cud invent sumthing and still live (hee hee) s'prise s'prise!