THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 Edward Teller 7 Technology in Karlsruhe, Ger. He then went to Munich and Leipzig to earn a Ph.D. in physical chemistry (1930). ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 war’s end he wanted the U.S. government’s nuclear weapons development priorit ...

7 Edward Teller 7 Teller-Ulam configuration, as it is now known, was suc- cessfully tested at Enewetak atoll in the Pacific on N ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 A staunch anticommunist, Teller devoted much time in the 1960s to his crusade ...

7 Michael DeBakey 7 DeBakey received his B.S. (1930), M.D. (1932), and M.S. (1935) degrees from Tulane University School of Medi ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Willard Libby (b. Dec. 17, 1908, Grand Valley, Colo., U.S.—d. Sept. 8, 1980, ...

7 Willard Libby 7 of its Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (from 1962) until his death. He was the recipient of nume ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 traces of carbon-14. After a plant or other organism dies, no additional carb ...

7 Willard Libby 7 covered the body of Jesus Christ but which Libby’s method applied by others shows to be from a period between ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 used, three-dimensional motion-picture process based on polarized light. Duri ...

7 Virginia Apgar 7 Virginia Apgar (b. June 7, 1909, Westfield, N.J., U.S.—d. Aug. 7, 1974, New York, N.Y.) V irginia Apgar, an A ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 In 1959 Apgar left Columbia and took a degree in public health from Johns Hop ...

7 Leo Fender 7 consultant and continued to indulge his inventive and entrepreneurial inclinations well into the 1980s. WILLIaM s ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Shockley suggested that silicon and germanium semi- conductors could be used ...

7 William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain 7 science-fiction author in his spare time. A month later Bell Labs announ ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 that standardized intelligence tests reflect a genetic factor in intellectual ...

7 William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain 7 Bardeen was awarded his second Nobel Prize for Physics, for development ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Test launch of a V-2 rocket. Camera Press of space never left him thereafter. ...

7 Wernher von Braun 7 from the Ordnance Department for Braun, who then did research at a small development station that was set ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Braun, “Goddard was ahead of us all.” At the end of World War II, Braun, his ...