South Dakota
South Dakota Hall of Fame: Paul Gnirk
The interview posted above is from SDPB’s each day public affairs present, Within the Second with Lori Walsh.
Paul Gnirk, Ph.D., is a founding member of RESPEC, Inc, a world chief in geoscience, engineering, knowledge, and built-in know-how options.
His life started in Burke, South Dakota, the place his love for engineering started as he realized that he “was fairly good” in arithmetic and science. He earned his mining engineering diploma in 1959 from the then South Dakota Faculty of Mines & Know-how. He earned his Ph.D. from the College of Minnesota.
His mom Adeline Gnirk was an distinctive author and was inducted into the South Dakota Corridor of Fame in 1959.
An in-person honors ceremony for the category of 2022 is scheduled in Chamberlain/Oacoma on September 9 and 10. These inductees will be part of over 700 already enshrined within the South Dakota Corridor of Fame.