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p. 207 Ovshinsky’s parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe: Biographical sources on Ovshinsky include B. Schwartz and H. Fritzsche, Stanford R. Ovshinsky: The Science and Technology of an American Genius (World Scientific Publishing, 2008), Chapter 1, available at www.worldscibooks.com/etextbook/6877/6877_chap01.pdf
p. 210 Ovshinsky’s patent has now been licensed by the chip-maker Intel: ‘The Edison of Our Age?’, The Economist Technology Quarterly, 30 November 2006, available at http://www.economist.com/node/8312367
p. 210 A February 1970 article in the magazine Science & Mechanics: N. Carlisle, ‘The Ovshinsky Invention’, Science & Mechanics, February 1970, p. 38, available at http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/02/12/the-ovshinsky-invention/
p. 211 has been referred to as ‘Japan’s American Genius’: This was the title of a 1987 PBS Nova documentary about Ovshinsky’s work.
p. 211 Forbes magazine has called him ‘the inventor who can create anything but profits’: J. Fahey, ‘Repeat Pretender’, Forbes, 24 November 2003, p. 86, available at http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/1124/086.html
p. 211 their aim was to use ‘creative science to solve societal problems’: ‘The Edison of Our Age?’.
p. 212 He was also still a member of their union: ‘The Edison of Our Age?’.
p. 212 ‘A lot of my best ideas came from Stan’: A. Bienenstock, ‘Bienenstock on Ovshinsky’, Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies, Spring 2008, p. 25, available at http://www.clas.berkeley.edu/Publications/Review/Spring2008/pdf/BRLAS-Spring2008-ovshinsky-bienenstock.pdf
p. 212 ‘I’ll have to throw a party for fifty people’: R. Walgate, ‘Nobel Prizes 1977’, New Scientist, 20 October 1977, p. 146. There is a photo of Mott pouring from this enormous bottle of champagne in E.A. Davis (editor), Nevill Mott: Reminiscences and Appreciations (Taylor & Francis, 1998), p. 176e, available at http://www.ebook3000.com/Biographies/Nevill-Mott--Reminiscences-AndAppreciations_104635.html
p. 212 its investors decided that they’d had enough of not turning a profit: D. Buss, ‘At 85, Green Giant Stan Ovshinsky Sees His Ideas Bearing Fruit’, Green Car Advisor, 7 July 2008, available at http://blogs.edmunds.com/greencaradvisor/2008/07/profile-at-85-green-giant-stan-ovshinsky-sees-his-ideas-bearing-fruit.html
p. 212 ‘… I use the periodic chart of atoms as if it’s an engineering diagram’: M. Villiger, ‘Meet the Ovshinskys’, Scientific American Frontiers, 19 May 2004, available at http://www.pbs.org/saf/1506/features/ovshinsky2.htm
p. 213 ‘Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries …’: Quoted in A.L. Peratt, ‘Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents’.
p. 213 ‘From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs’: K. Marx, ‘Critique of the Gotha Program’ (1875), available at http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm
p. 213 as sociologist Robert Merton pointed out: R.K. Merton, ‘The Matthew Effect in Science: The Reward and Communication Systems of Science Are Considered’, Science, vol. 159, p. 56 (1968), available at www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/merton/matthew1.pdf
p. 214 J.B.S. Haldane noticed it at work in his sphere: Merton discussed this incident in his follow-up paper: R. Merton, ‘The Matthew Effect in Science II: Cumulative Advantage and the Symbolism of Intellectual Property’, Isis, vol. 79, p. 606 (1988), available at http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/merton/matthewii.pdf
p. 215 Alfvén spoke with bitterness of his status as a ‘dissident’: H. Alfvén, ‘Memoirs of a Dissident Scientist’.
p. 215 ‘I’m not a part of their world’: ‘The Edison of Our Age?’.
CHAPTER 8
p. 216 the atmosphere is anything but relaxed: I attended this meeting, which was given a brief write-up in The Economist, available as ‘Phoning ET’ at: http://www.economist.com/node/17199376