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While a student at the California Institute of Technology, Leroy Hood received words of wisdom from his mentor William Dreyer...

With a passion for inventing, Dean Kamen has devoted his career to enhancing human capabilities through technology and...

A futurist and pioneer of pattern recognition technologies, Raymond Kurzweil has enriched our society with inventions that...

Vascular surgery pioneer Dr. Thomas Fogarty is a man of many interests and talents—surgeon, teacher, entrepreneur, avid...

A trigonometry book and electrical equipment from a power plant was all Dr. Carver Mead needed to whet his appetite for math...

Robert Langer was awarded the 1998 Lemelson-MIT Prize for being one of history's most prolific inventors in medicine. His...

At what later became known as "the Mother of All Demos," Douglas Engelbart in 1968 publicly demonstrated the computer mouse...

Over hot pastrami and corned beef sandwiches, Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen opened the door to genetic engineering and laid...

Helping his father repair engines and fix old cars as a child growing up in Flint, Mich., drove William Bolander to success...