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Randy Pausch

It is highly likely that Dr. Randy Pausch lasting legacy may not come for his work in Computer Science, his field of expertise. His lasting legacy is likely to come from a lecture that has become know as "The Last Lecture" teaching people about "Real...

Lenses about Innovators in Technology 

Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer, who now resides in the United States. He is best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel, an alternative operating systems to Microscoft. He has been dubbed "The Father of...

Katharine Wright

You learned the story of the Wright Brothers in school, but some of the juicy bits were left out.  The Wright Brothers may (or may not) have had a third partner--their sister Katharine. History is unclear on her role--some say she was the real br...

The Google Boys

The Google Boys - (a.k.a. Sergey Brin & Larry Page) Sergey Brin and Larry Page met as students at Stanford University, where they created the internet search engine that would transform the web and enter the lexicon of the 21st century, though th...

Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is currently the founder and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT, but he is perhaps best known for inventing (along with Robert Cailliau) the World Wide Web (W3) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (...

Nikola Tesla - the man who invented the twentieth century

Probably the most creative and prolific scientist of the 20th Century, Nikola Tesla was at the forefront of so many scientific disciplines. Yet due to his  inability to get on with his fellow scientists he was more or less osterised by the scine...

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James Kim

The Kim Family story was one that gripped people's attention in late November 2006. The family went missing November 25 when they took a wrong turn traveling home to San Francisco after spending Thanksgiving in Portland. At the time of the story more...

Thomas Edison

Although born in Ohio, Thomas Edison spent much of his later life in New Jersey. Edison is famous for his work with telegraphy, phonographs, the incandescent light bulb, and the kinetoscope, the first motion picture camera. He is shown here in his la...

Johann Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg originated the technique of printing from movable type. A 15th-century German craftsman, inventor, and printer, Gutenberg used hand-set type cast in molds to print multiple copies of manuscripts. Whereas scribes copied manuscripts...

Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin Co-Founder & President, Technology Sergey Brin, a native of Moscow, received a bachelor of science degree with honors in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is currently on leave from...

Larry Page

Larry Page Co-Founder & President, Products Larry Page was Google's founding CEO and grew the company to more than 200 employees and profitability before moving into his role as President, Products in April 2001. He continues to share responsibil...

Lenses about Innovators in Medicine 

Dr Jonas Salk | Polio Vaccine | Nobel Peace Prize Recipient | Founder of the Salk Institute for Scientific Research

When Dr. Jonas Salk envisioned the idea of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, it was with the idea of creating a vibrant, intellectual community, dedicated to pursuing the kinds of scientific achievements that had made him an international fi...

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD

Dr. Elisabeth Kubler Ross has the distinction of writing the first best selling book on a topic that no one wanted to discuss. On Death and Dying, written in 1969 is still required reading for many medical, nursing, psychology programs and college de...

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur made important contributions to the field of organic chemistry during the mid-1800s, developing various vaccines, including one for rabies, and disproving the theory of spontaneous generation. He is considered the founder of the field o...

Andrew von Eschenbach

As a Matter of Fact... a Lot of Good The Food and Drug Administration regulates approximately one-fourth of the U.S. economy, including every day items like food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., respected urolo...

Dr. Andrew Weil

Dr. Andrew Weil, physician, author, professor and wellness advocate, is changing the way that medicine may be practiced in the future by developing and teaching a blended field of study, Integrative Medicine. Since 1994 he had been the founder and di...

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Martha Rogers

Martha Elizabeth Rogers was a visionary thinker. In 1970, she published "The Science of Unitary Man" which revolutionized nursing. Her theories, as put forth, were a new way of thinking for nurses about human beings, and how they interact with each...

Doctor Virginia Apgar

Virginia Apgar (1909 - 1974), was a brilliant physician and humanitarian. She is best known for her development of the Apgar Score in 1952, a system to determine whether a newborn infant needs special attention to stay alive. Newborn Testing In most...

Clara Barton

When it comes to having heroes - Clara Barton is the type of person I like to think about.  All that she was able to accomplish is amazing enough, but that she was able to accomplish it as a woman in the era she lived, well, that is spectacular....

Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell- 1st American Woman Physician

In 1849, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821 - 1910) was the first woman to receive an M.D. degree from an American medical school. Elizabeth Blackwell said she turned to medicine after a close friend who was dying suggested she would have been spared her...

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale helped to mold the fields of nursing and public health. She earned the nickname "The Lady With the Lamp" for her tireless nursing care delivered to British soldiers during the Crimean War (1853–1856). Although most...

Lenses about Innovators in Science 

Galileo Galilei

Italian physicist and astronomer Galileo maintained that the earth revolved around the sun, disputing the belief held by the Roman Catholic church that the earth was the center of the universe. He refused to obey orders from Rome to cease discussions...

George Washington Carver

As a botany and agriculture teacher to the children of ex-slaves, Dr. George Washington Carver wanted to improve the lot of "the man farthest down", the poor, one-horse farmer at the mercy of the market and chained to land exhausted by cott...

Nicolaus Copernicus

Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized science by postulating that the earth and other planets revolve about a stationary sun. Developed in the early 1500s but not published until years later, his heliocentric (sun-centered) theory disp...

Albert Einstein

German-born American physicist and Nobel laureate, best known as the creator of the special and general theories of relativity and for his bold hypothesis concerning the particle nature of light. He is perhaps the most well-known scientist of the 20t...

Sir Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, and natural philosopher, considered one of the most important scientists of all time. Newton formulated laws of universal gravitation and motion—laws that explain how objects move on Earth as well...

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Daniel Dennett: Philosopher of the Mind

This page is about Daniel Dennett and discussions on all aspects of his work. We will cover theory of mind, consciousness, determinism, free will, faith and religion. That's a lot to cover in one lens! So content will be added as we go...all the tex...

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist, who is considered the founder of modern chemistry. Antoine Laurent Lavoisier was educated at the Collège Mazarin. He was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1768. He held many public offices. He at...

Innovators of Science, Medicine and Technology from Antiquity 

Aristotle

Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, and the author of works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, natural sciences, politics, and poetics, he profoundly influenced Western thought. In his philosophical system, which led hi...

Euclid

Greek mathematician, whose chief work, Elements, is a comprehensive treatise on mathematics in 13 volumes on such subjects as plane geometry, proportion in general, the properties of numbers, incommensurable magnitudes, and solid geometry. He probabl...

Tsai Lun | Cai Lun

The inventor of paper. He lived and served as an official at the Chinese Imperial Court at the Han Dynasty in China at about 1800 years ago. In or about the year 105 A.D., he presented Emperor Han Ho Ti with samples of paper. Chinese records do menti...