150 Amazing People
Newly Available, Also in Paperback!
This fifth volume of astonishing people has more amazing inventors: the teens who came up with the Frisbee, and the snowboard. The physicists who figured out how to do digital photography “in not more than an hour” — and why they needed to invent it.
The pioneers in computers, including the inventor of the laptop, and the inventor of ebooks. The creators of some of the best TV you’ve ever seen.
Accomplished women such as the first computer programmer, the secretary who “saved” The Diary of Anne Frank, the first female TV director. The physicist who figured out how to make blue and ultraviolet LEDs, which enabled new technologies and industries. The researcher who “brought about a revolution in biological and medical research,” winning her the Nobel Prize.
Brilliant writers, cartoonists, and musicians. The teachers and rocket scientists who worked to show us new things. The doctor who “prevented more cancer deaths than any person who’s ever lived,” and the doctor who figured out organ transplants, and the one who figured out in vitro fertilization.
The mainstream media tend to worship celebrities and sports figures, but the real heroes in life are often anonymous to the public. Each of the stories will make you realize the cool people you have missed in your midst. These are the people you will wish you had known.
The Honorees
Included in Volume 5:
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- Memory savior Miep Gies
- TV director Frances Buss Buch
- Mystery novelist Ralph McInerny
- Andy Griffith Show writer Aaron Ruben
- Frisbee inventor Walter Morrison
- Inventor Ronald Howes Sr.
- Space artist Robert McCall
- Bomber pilot Mariya Dolina
- Resistance fighter Andree Peel
- Healthful antagonist James W. Black
- Photographer of history Marty Lederhandler
- PC inventor H. Edward Roberts
- Supertramper George Nissen
- Salmon River Caveman Richard Zimmerman
- School reformer Saul Bruckner
- White Room dictator Güenter Wendt
- Chipwich inventor Richard LaMotta
- Polymath Martin Gardner
- House Party host Art Linkletter
- Imagination inducer Himan Brown
- The very conscious Fred Plum
- Thinker Anthony Quinton
- Swiss businessman Nicolas Hayek
- Cold type inventer Louis Moyroud
- The elderly (and he loved it) Robert Butler
- The statistically relevant David Blackwell
- Politically incorrect cartoonist John Callahan
- Hybridizer John Aylesworth
- Terrorist thwarter Reginald Levy
- TV producer David Wolper
- Star Gazer Jack Horkheimer
- Leader William P. Foster
- Book editor Larry Ashmead
- Boy-voiced Billie Mae Richards
- Giant Killer John Goeken
- Violinist Clair Cline
- Prolific dyslexic Stephen J. Cannell
- The fractalized Benoit Mandelbrot
- Panelist Leo Cullum
- Kangaroo Neighbor James E. Wall
- LEM Team Head Joseph Gavin
- Cardiologist Richard J. Bing
- Illuminated physicist Gertrude Neumark Rothschild
- Pox expert Frank Fenner
- “Green Nobel Prize” founder Richard N. Goldman
- Rocket scientist Walter Haeussermann
- Technology Ethicist Gary Chapman
- Suara Auru Fred Hargesheimer
- Democracy proponent Szeto Wah
- Children’s book author Ronald King-Smith
- The Golden-Eared Don Kirshner
- Godfather of Fitness Jack LaLanne
- Rubber-faced comedian Charlie Callas
- Pussycat Tura Satana
- The prolific Bill Justice
- Model Joanne Siegel
- World War I veteran Frank W. Buckles
- D-Day hero Leonard Lomell
- Ronald McDonald inspiration Kim Hill
- Libyan Journalist Mohammed Nabbous
- Pioneering computer programmer Jean Bartik
- Disease researcher Baruch Blumberg
- WASP flier Violet Cowden
- Lucy writer Madelyn Pugh
- Microcharity pioneer Mildred Leet
- Bell physicist Willard Boyle
- Persistent writer Dick Wimmer
- Dogface extraordinaire Paul Wiedorfer
- Nobel laureate Rosalyn Yalow
- The adjective, noun Leonard Stern
- TV composer Fred Steiner
- Ballroom dancer George Ballas
- Emmy-winning comedy writer Sam Denoff
- Blacklisted doctor Joseph Hittelman
- The anti-cancer David Servan-Schreiber
- Recomposer Frank Bender
- Transplant enabler Baruj Benacerraf
- Carpet mogul Ray C. Anderson
- Songwriter Jerry Leiber
- Klan unmasker Stetson Kennedy
- Khmer Rouge survivor Vann Nath
- Ebook inventor Michael Stern Hart
- Ziggy creator Tom Wilson
- IVF pioneer Carl Wood
- Freedom Rider Gordon Negen
- Operating system pioneer Dennis Ritchie
- Communications innovator Robert W. Galvin
- Chinese toddler Wang Yue
- “Ask Beth” columnist Elizabeth Winship
- Right-on-time Physicist Norman Ramsey
- Panel cartoonist Bil Keane
- Luthier extraordinaire Rene Morel
- Pizza roller Jeno Paulucci
- Skiing spymaster Peter Lunn
- The woman behind the successful man Barbara Orbison
- Literary hotelier George Whitman
- Innovation enabler Jack Goldman
- Mind-body connector Robert Ader
- Comic-Con co-founder Richard Alf
- Computer prodigy Arfa Karim Randhawa
- Chemist James R. Arnold
- Comedy director John Rich
- ALS researcher Richard K. Olney
- Columnist and author Jeffrey Zaslow
- Hospice pioneer William Lamers Jr.
- Pinball wizard Steve Kordek
- Atheist theologian William Hamilton
- World-saving chemist F. Sherwood Rowland
- “Death with Dignity” activist Peter Goodwin
- “Mr. Coffee” Samuel Glazer
- Arms control analyst Roger Molander
- Pediatrician Leila Denmark
- Comedy director Paul Bogart
- Guitar teacher to the World Bert Weedon
- Forgotten hero George Vujnovich
- Game Show creator Bob Stewart
- The Angel of the Gap Don Ritchie
- School bus driver Frank Edward Ray
- Remotely famous Eugene Polley
- Cartoonist Jim Unger
- Art designer Stan Jolley
- Piano teacher Capitola Dickerson
- Police officer Celena Hollis
- Workplace civilizer Harry Levinson
- Goony comedian Eric Sykes
- The habitual Stephen Covey
- Lucy’s director William Asher
- Cross-sectional imager Robert Ledley
- Firefighters’ helper William Mensing
- Film critic Judith Crist
- Digital designer Victor Poor
- Hepatitis B foe R. Palmer Beasley
- Photojournalist Malcolm Browne
- Laptop innovator Bill Moggridge
- Snowboard inventor Tom Sims
- Win-win Negotiator Gerard Nierenberg
- Ecologist Barry Commoner
- “Sheriff” John Rovick
- The completely innocent George Whitmore Jr.
- Tech innovator Stanford Ovshinsky
- Concentration camp photographer Wilhelm Brasse
- Safety engineer John Fitch
- Sea kayaker Derek Hutchinson
- Research psychiatrist Daniel Stern
- TV editor Dann Cahn
- Transplant pioneer Joseph E. Murray
- Astronomy educator Patrick Moore
- Barcode inventor N. Joseph Woodland
- Savvy nun Agnes Turk Richardson
- Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini