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The Man Who Saw Tomorrow - Lillian Hoddeson, Peter K. Garrett

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

The Life and Inventions of Stanford R. Ovshinsky
Buch | Hardcover
400 Seiten
2018
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-03753-2 (ISBN)
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The first full-length biography of a brilliant, self-taught inventor whose innovations in information and energy technology continue to shape our world.

The Economist called Stanford R. Ovshinsky (1922-2012) "the Edison of our age," but this apt comparison doesn't capture the full range of his achievements. As an independent, self-educated inventor, Ovshinsky not only created many important devices but also made fundamental discoveries in materials science. This book offers the first full-length biography of a visionary whose energy and information innovations continue to fuel our post-industrial economy.

In The Man Who Saw Tomorrow, Lillian Hoddeson and Peter Garrett tell the story of an unconventional genius with no formal education beyond high school who invented, among other things, the rechargeable nickel metal hydride batteries that have powered everything from portable electronics to hybrid cars, a system for mass-producing affordable thin-film solar panels, and rewritable CDs and DVDs. His most important discovery, the Ovshinsky effect, led to a paradigm shift in condensed matter physics and yielded phase-change memory, which is now enabling new advances in microelectronics. A son of the working class who began as a machinist and toolmaker, Ovshinsky focused his work on finding solutions to urgent social problems, and to pursue those goals, he founded Energy Conversion Devices, a unique research and development lab. At the end of his life, battered by personal and professional losses, Ovshinsky nevertheless kept working to combat global warming by making solar energy "cheaper than coal"-another of his many visions of a better tomorrow.

Lillian Hoddeson is Professor of History Emerita and Thomas Siebel Chair in the History of Science Emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the coauthor of True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen and other books. Peter Garrett is Professor of English Emeritus and former Director of the Unit for Criticism and Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Gothic Reflections and other books.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
Zusatzinfo 8 color illus., 131 b&w illus.
Sprache englisch
Maße 178 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Technikgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-262-03753-X / 026203753X
ISBN-13 978-0-262-03753-2 / 9780262037532
Zustand Neuware
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