150 Amazing People
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This third volume of astonishing people has more amazing inventors: the doctor who invented the implantable drug infusion pump, which is now used by diabetics to keep blood insulin levels in check. The doctor who came up with acetaminophen, to treat your headaches and other pains. The physicist and engineer who invented the crash-test dummy (and why). The guy who came up with the idea for renting videos. The microbiologist who is responsible for saving more lives than anyone else in history.
There’s also the woman who founded the first rape crisis center in the U.S. (because her 15-year-old daughter really needed it). The guy who came up with the first web crawler to create a search engine (it wasn’t Google).
And then there’s the artists — the guy responsible for bringing Batman to modern audiences, after the character declined after World War II. The woman who created “Brenda Starr”. The man who quit his corporate job and came up with a new concept to help the poor: the food bank.
You’ve heard of the Green Berets — the very first Special Forces team. Have you ever heard of the secret agent who was responsible for creating them, and chose the color of the beret? You will here. And the guy who was the first Blue Angel — the U.S. Air Force’s precision flying team.
Not to mention the doctors who improve or save lives, like the one in New Zealand who recognized, and developed a treatment for, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Plus, of course, a number of rocket scientists and other geeks.
The mainstream media tend to worship celebrities and sports figures, but the real heroes in life are often anonymous to the public. This volume includes 149 of those fascinating men and women.
The Honorees
Included in Volume 3:
- Digital sound pioneer Thomas G. Stockham Jr.
- Writer Jack Cady
- Obstetric anesthesiology pioneer Gertie Marx
- Movie trailer reinventor Andrew J. Kuehn
- Scifi agent and editor Julius Schwartz
- Female prisoner advocate Sybil Brand
- Over-the-moon composer Bart Howard
- Bang-up producer Dana Broccoli
- Computer missionary George E. Pake
- Rocket scientist William H. Pickering
- Yet Another Unknown U.S. Marine
- Special Operations operative Aaron Bank
- Soviet dissident Larisa Bogoraz
- Manufacturer turned health lobbyist Phil Sokolof
- Army wife Julia Compton Moore
- Deaf educator Edward Scouten
- Surgeon Richard Lynn Varco
- Medical experimentation victim David Reimer
- Highway engineer Marilyn Jorgenson Reece
- Book publisher Roger W. Straus Jr
- Eye surgery pioneer Charles Kelman
- Doctor Jordan B. Fieldman
- Federal judge Prentice Marshall
- Infant anatomist Edmund Crelin Jr.
- Pulp author Hugh B. Cave
- Valiant illustrator John Cullen Murphy
- The imaginative Sam McKim
- The “R” of “H&R” Richard A. Bloch
- Pop food scientist William A. Mitchell
- Carried-away actress Fay Wray
- War photographer Carl Mydans
- Taboo researcher Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- Bright as a comet Fred L. Whipple
- Jack-O-Farmer Nick Venetucci
- Beachcomber Al Baldwin
- Accidental spy Iceal Hambleton
- Foghorn-voiced Scott Muni
- Magnificent 1/7th Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr.
- Photographic art pioneer Helen Gee
- First Amendment defender Richard M. Schmidt Jr.
- The jazzy Joe Bushkin
- Best buddies Jeremiah Baro and Jared Hubbard
- Media critic Reed Irvine
- The rational Ancel Keys
- Universalist Albert A. Dorskind
- JPLers Jane Galloway, Kerri Agey and Dorothy Forks
- Loyal American Harry Ueno
- The supportive Harold Benjamin
- Headache-free Julius Axelrod
- The demanding Gerard Debreu
- Victim advocate Oleta Kirk Abrams
- The scientific Dennis Flanagan
- The captivating Nick McDonald
- Television legend Johnny Carson
- The low-pressure Edward D. Freis
- The well-grounded Karl Linn
- Non-dummy Samuel W. Alderson
- High-flier Uli Derickson
- The safely clad George F. Crikelair
- The pre-recorded George Atkinson
- Superdad Richard Dutrow
- The very patient Simon Eisdorfer
- The cold-hearted Wilfred G. Bigelow
- Real-life Starr Dale Messick
- The well-vaccinated Maurice R. Hilleman
- Civic-minded Marla Ruzicka
- Educational TV pioneer John F. White
- The well-decorated David H. Hackworth
- The magical Jay Marshall
- Actor-impressionist Frank Gorshin
- The alarming E. Harris Nober
- Heroic actor Leon Askin
- The record-breaking Simon Waronker
- Happily married Percy Arrowsmith
- The non-ignorant Shana Alexander
- Gutsy pilot Ray Holmes
- Classic-maker Ernest Lehman
- Wartime gypsy Frances Langford
- Easy dinner creator Gerry Thomas
- The very healthy Richard Doll
- Good politician Jay Hammond
- First Blue Angel Roy Voris
- Typecast film maker David Loeb Weiss
- Down and dirty Ronald F. Scott
- Presidential doctor Daniel Ruge
- Woman Kathy Wilson
- Dancer Murphy Matthews Jr
- Laser inventor Gordon Gould
- Extremely equal Constance Baker Motley
- The hospitable John van Hengel
- TV writer Devery Freeman
- The very open Alexander Yakovlev
- Extraordinary doctor Bill Inman
- Artist R.C. Gorman
- Management guru Peter F. Drucker
- Consequential truthteller Ralph Edwards
- Sensei Noriyuki Morita
- The bosomy buddy Wendie Jo Sperber
- Classic clothier Peter Haas Sr.
- Friend of the Earth Richard Sandbrook
- High achiever Paul Williams
- Healer Bradford Cannon
- Networker Evelyn Fowler Grubb
- Vietnam hero Hugh Thompson Jr
- The jazzy Bob Weinstock
- The Good-hearted W. Hunter Simpson
- “Grandpa” Al Lewis
- The Boopalicious Myron Waldman
- Southern chef Edna Lewis
- Head Cowsill Billy Cowsill
- The tireless Peter Snow
- Chicken evangelist Robert C. Baker
- The findable Paul Flaherty
- The sudsy Gloria Monty
- Gem in the Rough Frederick H. Pough
- Japan expert Otis Cary
- E-patient Tom Ferguson
- The non-bionic Bruce A. Peterson
- Barehanded Harold Raymond Kingsmill Bates
- The well pinned-up Joyce Brand
- Non-smoker Heather Crowe
- Southern desegrationist Hugh B Patterson Jr
- Swinger Eddie Malone
- Olympic trailblazer Neroli Fairhall
- Staying in Vegas Manuel J. Cortez
- The Ever-hungry Robert Carrier
- Productive adult Lou Dantzler
- Patients rights pioneer Zelda Foster
- Arizona photographer Ray Manley
- Master Navy diver Carl M. Brashear
- The bookish Frederick G. Kilgour
- Well-belted James Van Allen
- Maori queen Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu
- Research biologist Vernon M. Ingram
- Rocketman Rocco Petrone
- Women’s rights crusader Estelle R. Ramey
- Indoor environmentalist P. Ole Fanger
- School hostage Emily Keyes
- Public servant Joseph Kauffman
- Comedy writer Jerry Belson
- News explainer Christopher Glenn
- Disguised friend Arthur Peacocke
- Big-picture thinker Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber
- Grand Master Jack Williamson
- Buchenwald savior Jack Werber
- Anti-smoker Allen Carr
- Madame Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
- Vinyl legend Ahmet Ertegun
- Trauma surgeon Robert Freeark
- American scholar Seymour Lipset