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Join us for the
unveiling of "The Gift"
Honoring Jack Kilby
April 28, 2012
at Jack Kilby Square
in downtown Great Bend!
Great Bend to Greatness...
You are invited to the community where the journey to greatness began for the renowned physicist whose inventions won him a Nobel Prize, the National Medal of Science and an induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Mark your calendars for an important event that will finally put a highly visible connection between the City of Great Bend and the modest engineering genius whose invention more than 50 years ago changed the world.
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Before he became the famous inventor whose integrated circuit changed the world, Jack Kilby's formative years were spent in Great Bend, KS.
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Before he became the famous inventor whose integrated circuit changed the world, Jack Kilby's formative years were spent in Great Bend, KS.
You can have your personal memorial paver added to this unique Jack Kilby memorial for as little as $200. Please Show Support for this Community Project. Click here to find how.
Who Was Jack Kilby? The above YouTube video tells how Kilby changed TI and changed the World.
"I've always thought of Great Bend as my hometown and I've been proud of that. I've also been proud I went to Great Bend High School."
- Jack Kilby
Quoted during Jack Kilby Weekend, Oct. 12-14, 2001
- Jack Kilby
Quoted during Jack Kilby Weekend, Oct. 12-14, 2001
Kansas City Star - "From a Kansas town came an engineer who helped start an electronics revolution."
Allen Tomnitz, Retired Aircraft Pilot and 1940 GBHS graduate - "He is a product of the Great Bend public schools. What a tribute to public education he is."
T.R. Reid's book, The Chip - "Jack Kilby, a quiet slow-talking sort from Great Bend, Kansas, finally got a chance to work in a major laboratory on a problem of premier importance. Within weeks, he hit on an idea that struck the world of microelectronics like a lightening bolt."
Allen Tomnitz, Retired Aircraft Pilot and 1940 GBHS graduate - "He is a product of the Great Bend public schools. What a tribute to public education he is."
T.R. Reid's book, The Chip - "Jack Kilby, a quiet slow-talking sort from Great Bend, Kansas, finally got a chance to work in a major laboratory on a problem of premier importance. Within weeks, he hit on an idea that struck the world of microelectronics like a lightening bolt."