Sad news about Jack Kilby's passing away. Wonderful to know the India connection in his glorious life " ...he decided in high school that he would become an electrical engineer and applied to M.I.T., even then the mecca for aspiring engineers. He took a train to Cambridge, Mass., but fell slightly short in his score on the entrance exam in June 1941 and was unable to enroll. A few months later he joined the Army and was assigned to a radio repair shop at an outpost on a tea plantation in northeast India." From here http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/22/business/22kilby.html?th&emc=th
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Sad news about Jack Kilby's passing away. Wonderful to know the India connection in his glorious life " ...he decided in high school that he would become an electrical engineer and applied to M.I.T., even then the mecca for aspiring engineers. He took a train to Cambridge, Mass., but fell slightly short in his score on the entrance exam in June 1941 and was unable to enroll. A few months later he joined the Army and was assigned to a radio repair shop at an outpost on a tea plantation in northeast India." From here http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/22/business/22kilby.html?th&emc=th
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