Talk:Jack Kilby

message: The quote from Bill Clinton seems really insignificant to me, and I think it should be removed. The reference (link to Kilby's very brief bio on the TI website) doesn't give any specifics where the quote came from. Also nothing in Clinton's statement is specific to Kilby, and could be applied to literally any Nobel Prize Winner in any era. Am I missing the value this quote adds? 75.169.61.199 (talk) 22:08, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction

message: Kilby's Nobel Prize autobiogaphy  states his birth was at Great Bend, Kansas. Why does the article mention Missouri? Ejrrjs | What? 18:51, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

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thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: :"[Kilby] spent the summer working on the problem in circuit design that was commonly called the "tyranny of numbers" and finally came to the conclusion that manufacturing the circuit components in mass in a single piece of semiconductor material could provide a solution. On September 12 he presented his findings to the management, which included Mark Shepherd, of Texas Instruments: he showed them a piece of germanium with an oscilloscope attached, pressed a switch, and the oscilloscope showed a continuous sine wave, proving that his integrated circuit worked and thus that he solved the problem
I don't see how Kirby's findings relate to the tyranny of numbers as a solution. --Abdull (talk) 19:48, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems and solutions 

message: If he patented the IC in 1959, why did it take until 2000 for him to win a Nobel Prize? Why have so few people ever heard of this guy? Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright brothers, Henry Ford, all famous men in their own time. Steve Jobs was just a developer and marketer, and look how famous he is! It seems a bit odd. Are we missing part of the story? According to this source, Robert Noyce developed it simultaneously. http://inventors.about.com/od/istartinventions/a/intergrated_circuit.htm Ghostofnemo (talk) 15:48, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline question and why isn't this guy famous? 

message: Jack Kilby's MS degree was from UW-Madison, not UW-Milwaukee (see: https://www.engr.wisc.edu/microchip-inventor-and-uw-engineering-alumnus-kilby-dies/). The confusion is because in some places it's referred to as only the "University of Wisconsin", and he obtained the degree while working in Milwaukee. 
I made the changes on the page, but because I am not a regular editor, I am not sure how to change the category that he belongs to from "University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Alumni" to "University of Wisconsin - Madison Alumni". If someone could help make this change, that would be very helpful  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:F388:1082:FFFA:D98C:C255:CCC4:F9BB (talk) 21:42, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Switching UW-Milwaukee --> UW-Madison 

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