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The Most Important Inventor You've Never Heard Of


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Stanford Ovshinsky

Stanford Ovshinsky in his laboratory.

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When The Economist called Stanford Ovshinsky "the Edison of our age," the name might have been unfamiliar to most people, but the comparison was apt.

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