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Stanford Ovshinsky, Hybrid Car Battery Inventor, Has Died

Posted by timothy on from the sainthood-nomination-time dept.

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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  1. Physical Review Letter that Started it All by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Stanford R. Ovshinsky, "Reversible Electrical Switching Phenomena in Disordered Structures," Physical Review Letters, vol. 21, no. 20 (1968), pp. 1450-1453.

  2. Hybrid car battery by Jack+Malmostoso · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just to be pedantic, he invented Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries which happen to be used in most hybrids, but of course are used in a million other places as well.
    RIP.