JackJack S. Kilby, a Microchip Inventor, Died at 81

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Intigrated circuit inventor died after a brief battle with cancer. Read more [Here] Jack S. Kilby received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000.

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    bergzbergz Posts: 1,045member
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    Kilby, 81, was eventually awarded the Nobel Prize for his work. But he refused to take much credit. The Post recounts:



    Whenever people would mention that Kilby was responsible for the entire modern digital world, he liked to tell the story of the beaver and the rabbit sitting in the woods near Hoover Dam. "Did you build that one?" the rabbit asked. "No, but it was based on an idea of mine," the beaver replied.



    --B
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