For his book, Dean spent more than a year on the circuit with a champion Australian shepherd named Jack, following him to more than 30 competitions, including Westminster in 2010 and 2011.
In 1959 Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor and Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments each invented the integrated circuit, etching a transistor onto a two- dimensional chip of silicon.
Watson and Francis Crick's description of DNA's double-helix structure, and in computing, with Jack Kilby's and Bob Noyce's independent inventions of the integrated circuit.