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Ross Winans Biography
Ross Winansinventor, manufacturerBorn: 1796Birthplace: Sussex County, N.J. Ironically, the man who would set the standard for railroad wheel design for the entire 19th century first came in…Linus Yale Biography
Linus Yalelock manufacturer, inventorBorn: 4/4/1821Birthplace: Salisbury, N.Y. After a false start as a portrait painter, he succumbed to the lure of locks as his father had done, and became…Henry William Stiegel Biography
Henry William Stiegel ironmaster, glassmakerBorn: 5/13/1729 Birthplace: Cologne, Germany He emigrated to Philadelphia in 1750, and established iron forges in Lancaster and Berks Counties,…Paul M. Zoll Biography
Paul M. ZollAge: 87 Harvard cardiologist who was a pioneer in the development of the heart monitors, pacemakers, and defibrillators that are today used by millions around the world.Died:…Henry W. Kendall Biography
Henry W. KendallAge: 72 Nobel-winning physicist who helped discover that protons and neutrons, formerly thought to be the basic building blocks of matter, are made up of quarks. Firmly…Glenn Seaborg Biography
Glenn SeaborgAge: 86 important Nobel-winning chemist who was involved in the discovery of ten atomic elements, including plutonium (in 1941) and seaborgium (in 1974; officially named for him…Maurice Hilleman Biography
inventorBorn: 1919Died: 2005 While at Merck, Hilleman pioneered the development of many of the vaccines commonly used today such as MMR, used to combat measles…Miguel Ondetti Biography
inventorBorn: 1930Died: 2004 By synthesizing captopril during their careers at Bristol Myers Squibb, Cushman and Ondetti created the first medical treatment…Nick Holonyak Biography
inventorBorn: 28 November 1928Best Known as: inventor of the first III-V alloy visible LEDs Nick Holonyak invented the first light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which…Otto Wichterle Biography
inventorBorn: 1913Died: 1998 Wichterle's soft contact lens proved to be less expensive and more comfortable than traditional glass or hard plastic lenses. A…Trending
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