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...economics prize is the only Nobel award established to complement the five prizes that dynamite-inventor Alfred B. Nobel created in his will at the end of last century. It was instituted in 1968 by Sweden's Central Bank...
Handsome men in sports clothes and sweatbands play racquetball, snorting like stags in battle, then sing love songs to each other. A female doctor and her lover, a would-be inventor of nouvelle kosher cuisine, cheerily introduce themselves as "the lesbians from next door." The matron's husband, and surrogate father to her son, is the ex-husband's ex-psychiatrist. The shrink and the boy do a vaudeville-inspired soft-shoe number called Everyone Hates His Parents. The mother probably speaks for a whole generation or two when she describes her occupation in life as "holding to the ground...
...Patent and Trademark Office registration number is tough to remember -- 4,942,516 -- and the holder of the patent, a Los Angeles inventor named Gilbert Hyatt, is a virtual unknown. But Hyatt, 52, has suddenly carved a memorable niche for himself in the multibillion-dollar semiconductor industry. Last week, after a 20-year battle with the patent office, the tenacious engineer announced that he had finally received a certificate of intellectual ownership for a single-chip microprocessor that he says he invented in 1968. The announcement sent shock waves throughout the computer industry, which could be forced to pay Hyatt...
...perennially broke inventor, Hyatt could certainly use the cash. In 1968 he quit a well-paying job as a Teledyne engineer to try to solve "the chip problem" out of a makeshift laboratory in the living room of his three- bedroom house in Reseda, Calif. He used all his $10,000 savings before he finally figured out a method to mount a series of tiny computer components on a silicon chip. "I had setbacks, but I never had any doubts," he recalls. "When the inventive drive comes, you have to follow it." Despite his continuing research and perseverance, Hyatt earned...
Dating during the American Revolution: Historians do not know for certain whether George Washington asked Martha for a date, or whether Martha first asked George, primarily because contemporary observers could not tell the difference between them. The rest of colonial women dated Ben Franklin, inventor of the power date. Franklin dominated conversations by reciting his numerous inventions, travels and accomplishments in international diplomacy...