Integrated circuit inventor nabs Nobel Prize

[Bjorn Julin]

>Hello guys,

>This just came in on the news.  I thought you might find it >inspiring, or 
>at least interesting.

Its interesting to see that it "took" the "noble" members
of the board of the nobel fund 40 years to make up their mind!
Why so long, did they wait out Mr Noyce? Or what!
Incredible lousy of the "Noble" members of the asshole board!!

What all of you shall know is that this Nobel comitee are
loaded with internal fights and are quite crittisised due to
among many things "life time member ship" and "non replaceable
members" and all sorts of "lick my ass" things!

I do crittisie them to due to the intepretation of Mr Nobels
actuall meaning of the fund, and that Astrid Lindgren newer
got the price in Litterature. She have written several
world wide known books who are filmitatized etc.

Whats wrong whit all this!! Well she writes childrens books,
thats why she newer getts the price.

No,its a society party with much royal people and all that shit,
not to mention the ""enourmus"" prestige there is in getting
this award, engineers and "mostly" sientice's will kill to
get the dumb price!

Just my personal rant!!

BJ



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>Integrated circuit inventor nabs Nobel Prize 
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>Associated Press
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>Oct. 10, 2000 |  DALLAS (AP) --  More than 40 years after Jack St. Clair
>Kilby developed the integrated circuit at Texas Instruments, the Dallas
>engineer was honored Tuesday with the Nobel Prize for his invention that
>revolutionized the electronics industry and propelled his company into a
>semiconductor powerhouse.
>
>Kilby, who was also co-inventor of the pocket calculator, shares the 
>$915,000
>award with two other scientists who were named for additional work that
>helped create modern information technology.
>
>The microchip, now the electronic heart of products ranging from super
>computers to cellular phones, was Kilby's brainchild soon after he joined
>Texas Instruments in 1958.
>
>Kilby, 76, said Tuesday outside his North Texas home that he was surprised 
>by
>the award and that he had no idea during the microchip's development that 
>it
>would become a lynchpin of modern infotechnology.
>"I'm very pleased. I'm elated. It's a wonderful thing," Kilby said. "I
>thought it (the microchip) would be important for electronics as we knew it
>then, but I didn't understand how much it would permit the field to 
>expand."
>
>Kilby, now retired, holds more than 60 patents and has honorary degrees 
>from
>three universities. Dallas-based Texas Instruments named its $154 million,
>584,000-square-foot rsearch and development complex Kilby Center in his
>honor.   Kilby said he had not decided what to do with the prize money.
>
>Engineering journals and industry officials have recounted how Kilby's 
>first
>integrated circuit, fabricated from a single piece of semiconductor 
>material
>about half the size of a paper clip, has grown to a device packed with
>millions of transistors and forming the computer industry's backbone.
>
>The microchip was the basis for a series of innovations that helped Kilby's
>company grow from $230 million in revenue in 1960 to $9.5 billion last 
>year.
>
>Worldwide, the semiconductor market has since grown into a $137 billion
>industry, fueling explosive growth of the communications, computer and
>consumer electronics industries.
>
>"Without Kilby, it wold not have been possible to build the personal
>computers we have today," said Hermann Grimmeiss, a member of the Royal
>Swedish Academy of Sciences.
>
>Kilby left TI in 1970 to become a freelance inventor. He was also a
>distinguished professor of electrical engineering at Texas A&M University
>from 1978 to 1985.
>
>On the anniversary of his microchip invention in 1998, Kilby said, "The
>integrated circuit is 40 years old now and that's an incredibly long time 
>in
>the history of electronics. It's true that the original idea was mine, but
>what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's
>best engineers."
>
>Known by colleagues as a humble giant and a man of few words, Kilby said he
>has never craved fame or wealth.
>"I think it just happened," Kilby has said earlier of his career as an
>inventor. "It wasn't deliberate. I didn't say, `Inventors are nice and I 
>want
>to be one.' I just think if you work on interesting projects, invention is
>kind of a natural consequence."
>
>Associated Press | Oct. 10, 2000
>

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