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Chapters: Lemelson-mit Prize, Daniel Dilorenzo, Gertrude B. Elion. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Lemelson Foundation awards several prizes yearly to inventors in United States. The largest is the Lemelson-MIT Prize which was endowed in 1994 by Jerome H. Lemelson, and is administered through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The winner receives $500,000, making it the largest cash prize for invention in the U.S. From 1995 through 2006, the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award and the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize were also presented along with the Lemelson-MIT prize. In 2007 the Lifetime Achievement award was replaced with the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability. In 2007 the Lemelson Foundation also introduced two additional $30,000 student prizes to be awarded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A student prize for the California Institute of Technology was added in 2009. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=68776 ... Read more

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A biography of the chemist who, in recognition of her important discoveries and inventions, was the first woman inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1991. ... Read more

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When Stephen Crane saw boundaries, he didn ’t dawdle and wait for someone to help him inside.He just jumped the fence.This spirit is evident in the Civil War novel that he's famous for, The Red Badge of Courage.He was only twenty-one when he wrote the book,and he dared to tell the story even though he'd never so much as stepped onto a battlefield.His life was a series of wild dares.Every time he disobeyed his Methodist parents and snuck away to explore the neighborhood, he risked punishment.Every time he compromised his safety as a journalist by disguising himself and sneaking into dangerous places, he risked his life.What was his greatest feat?That's easy.Somehow, he wrote it all down. ... Read more