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October 20, 2012 07:05 am

Stanford Ovshinsky, Hybrid Car Battery Inventor, Has Died


another random user writes "Stanford Ovshinsky, a self-taught American physicist who designed the battery now used in hybrid cars, has died aged 89 from prostate cancer . The electronics field of ovonics was named after Mr Ovshinsky, who owned over 200 patents and has been described as a '[Thomas] Edison of our age.'He introduced the idea of 'glass transistors' in 1968, which paved the way for modern flat-screen monitors."

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