
The Most Important Inventor You've Never Heard of
Stanford Ovshinsky changed your life, and the full impact of his brilliance may still be to come
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. 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. They are the authors of the new book The Man Who Saw Tomorrow: The Life and Inventions of Stanford R. Ovshinsky (MIT Press).
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