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Stanford R. Ovshinsky

he was completely self-taught: he learned everything he knew by himself, starting with reading everything he could find of interest in his home town library, in Akron, Ohio. “His teachers didn’t understand him, but his librarian did,” his son said. “The librarian let him take out adult books without questioning or challenging him. He was tireless in his curiosity.” His study of the brain, for instance, led to his work on semiconductors and electronic memory. He died October 17 from prostate cancer, at 89.

From This is True for 21 October 2012
 
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