Late Electronics Maverick Stanford R. Ovshinsky In The Pages Of PopSci

The "Edison of our age" invented the nickel-metal hybrid battery and helped develop solar panels, rewritable CDs, and flat-panel displays. Stanford R. Ovshinsky, a self-taught, inventive genius who revolutionized the field of semiconductors, died of prostate cancer on Wednesday at the age of 89. Though he never went to college, Ovshinsky invented the nickel-metal hybrid battery and helped develop solar energy panels, rewritable CDs, and flat-panel displays. The Economist once called him "the Edi...