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"I've said all along that I'm out to change the
world, and I have a lot more work to do."
- Stanford Ovshinsky
entist for almost five decades. That
firm lost money for several years
and how has new management,
Ovshinsky suffered a setback
when his wife, Iris, 79, drowned in
August 2006 after more than 50
still making solar panels and other
energy materials.
Ovshinsky is moving forward
years of marriage. He also had a
bacterial infection last year that
required surgery. At the end of
in his new venture, raising capital
from friends, planning to hire more
people and setting up a laboratory.
last year, he married Rosa Young,
a physicist he has worked with at
ECD for 23 years. She retired from
He won't reveal details of his plans
for proprietary reasons, but he's
still determined to help mankind
ECD and has joined his venture.
with his ideas. "Many people com-
plain about problems, but I have a
history of providing solutions."
Global Fight
Among his prolific inventions,
Ovshinsky has developed a new
type of computer memory and
Ovshinksy was born in Akron,
Ohio, the son of Jewish Lithuanian
immigrants. His father, Ben, came
technology to help in the battle
against global warming.
"Global warming is so significant
it can be compared with atomic
warfare," he points out. "The world
to Chicago first and was a horse-
needs alternative energy, mainly
tending teamster before meeting his
mother, Bertha, on a trip to Akron,
then moving there. For a living,
hydrogen, to compete with fossil
fuels; and in case, we really lose
our auto industry base, we have
he collected scrap from machine
shops and sold it to companies,
then became a metals dealer.
to come up with a new industrial
base. "We must minimize war and
devote our efforts to advancing
Stanford dropped out of
high school during the Great
Depression. "It was because I
science and technology to solve
our problems."
Early Roots
wanted to educate myself, and
I did most of my learning in the
public libraries and the Workmen's
Circle [an American Jewish fra-
ternal organization] of Akron," he
explained. "My mother was very
religious, but not the rest of the
family. I haven't been too religious
over the years."
Ovshinsky performed odd jobs
during the day and attended a
trade school at night, learning to
run a machine shop and develop-
ing into a successful mechanical
The soft-spoken Ovshinsky has
several honorary degrees, has
received many prestigious scientific
awards, has written close to 300
scientific papers and regularly con-
sults with Nobel Prize winners and
other scientists around the world.
His desk is lined with many of
these papers, business plans and
samples of materials.
Another table is filled with letters
and commendations form scien-
tists and worldwide organizations.
President George W. Bush even
visited Ovshinsky's former com-
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and electrical engineer. He became
a skilled machinist during World
War II and got his first patent for a
pany two years ago.
Ovshinsky has a total of seven
children from three marriages, and
two-headed lathe designed to pro-
duce twin artillery projectiles at a
time on the same machine.
In the 1950s, Ovshinsky moved
10 grandchildren. One of his sons,
Harvey Ovshinsky, a story con-
sultant and video producer in Ann
Arbor, thinks it's "exciting" that his
to Detroit "to be closer to the auto
industry and newer technology."
He shifted his interests towards
father is continuing to pursue his
inventions in the new venture.
"He feels he's not done with his
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the new field of electrical engineer-
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Energy Conversion Laboratories
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roads; the name later was changed
to Energy Conversion Devices Inc.
work and has more to contribute
to society," said Harvey Ovshinsky.
"For many years, he often strug-
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Among his many electrification dis-
coveries is that glass can be engi-
neered to conduct electricity.
gled to get people to accept his
science. Now, he's invigorated with
a new creativity and ambition to
help change the environment.
"He's looking forward to his next
discovery."
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