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What
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City
of Dallas
Special Recognition
WHEREAS,
Jack St. Clair Kilby, who holds over 60 U.S. patents, grew up in
Great Bend and began his illustrious career in 1947, with the Centralab
Division of Globe Union, Inc. in Milwaukee, developing ceramic-base,
silk-screen circuits for consumer electronic products; and
WHEREAS,
in 1958, as a young engineer, Jack Kilby joined Texas Instruments
and during that summer conceived and built the first electronic
circuit in which all of the components, both active and passive,
were fabricated in a single piece of semiconductor material half
the size of a paper clip; and
WHEREAS,
Jack Kilby went on to pioneer military, industrial and commercial
applications of microchip technology, and headed teams that built
both the first military system and the first computer incorporating
integrated circuits; and
WHEREAS,
Jack Kilby has received two of the United States' highest awards,
the National Medal of Science in 1970, and he was inducted into
the National Inventors Hall of fame in 1982; and
WHEREAS,
Jack Kilby recently received the Nobel Prize for his integrated
circuit invention that changed the electronics industry and propelled
his company into a semiconductor powerhouse.
NOW,
THEREFORE, I, RONALD KIRK, mayor of the city of Dallas, and on behalf
of the Dallas City Council, do hereby extend special recognition
on November 15, 2000, to
JACK
KILBY
for
his creativity and ingenuity in developing a single chip that has
single-handedly revolutionized the way we live today.
Ron
Kirk
Mayor
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