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Kilby, now 76 and largely retired, was understandably surprised by the belated honor. "The integrated circuit didn't have much new physics in it," the 6-ft. 6-in., plainspoken inventor said with a shrug to reporters who gathered outside his door. But the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences thought otherwise. Awarding Kilby half the 2000 physics prize (total value: $915,000), it noted that his chip created nothing less than a revolution in solid-state physics, not to mention a $231 billion worldwide industry for the microchips that are the heart of today's electronic wizardry, from computers...
...prize widely considered the world's most prestigious, the Nobels had a surprisingly inauspicious beginning. Established under the will of 19th century munitions maker Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896), it was as much an attempt to redeem the reputation of its founder--best known in his day as the inventor of dynamite--as to award the accomplishments of its recipients. Nobel, a pacifist who liked to write poetry, had intended his explosive to be used mostly for peaceful purposes and was dismayed that it became so powerful an instrument of war. In 1888 a French newspaper--thinking it was Alfred...
Tomorrow, the winners will travel to MIT to explain their work. Past winner Hyuk-Ho Kwon, inventor of the self-perfuming business suit, will join them...
...while Bush pulled a few punches, making digs at Gore's inventor of the Internet claims and his statistics, Gore was not caught off-guard...
DIED. EDWARD CRAVEN WALKER, 82, unabashed nudist and inventor of the oozing 1960s groovy-soothing lava lamp; in Ringwood, England. After the lamp buyer at Harrod's found Walker's display of sculptural, sinuous paraffin-and-oil globs "disgusting," Walker took it elsewhere and hit big. "You can avoid going on drugs," he once said. "If you have a lava lamp, you won't need them...