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Up for sale "Nickel-Metal Hydride Battery" Stanford Ovshinsky Signed First Day Cover Dated 1963.

24, 1922 – October 17, 2012) was an over a span of fifty years was granted well

over 400 patents, mostly in the areas of energy and information.[1] Many of his inventions have had wide ranging

applications. Among the most prominent are: an environmentally friendly nickel-metal hydride

battery, which has been widely used in laptop computers, digital cameras, cell phones, and electric and hybrid cars; flexible thin-film solar energy laminates and panels; flat screen liquid crystal fuel cells; and

nonvolatile phase-change memory.

Ovshinsky opened the scientific field of amorphous and disordered materials in the course of his

research in the 1940s and 50s in neurophysiology, neural disease, the nature of intelligence in

mammals and machines, and cybernetics. Amorphous silicon semiconductors have become the basis of many technologies

and industries. Ovshinsky is also distinguished in being self-taught, without formal college or graduate training. Throughout

his life, his love for science and his social convictions were the primary

engines for his inventive work. In 1960, Ovshinsky and his

soon-to-be second wife, Iris Dibner, founded Energy Conversion Laboratory in a

storefront in Detroit, dedicating the laboratory to the

solution of important societal problems using science and technology. Focusing

on the critical areas of energy and information, their new company,

reconstituted in 1964 as Energy Conversion Devices (ECD),

went on to become a forefront invention and development laboratory whose

products have built new industries, many of them aimed at making fossil fuel obsolete. ECD continues (through joint

ventures and license partners) to be a leading solar Roughly

a year after Iris Ovshinsky's death in August 2006, Ovshinsky left ECD and

established a new company, Ovshinsky Innovation LLC, devoted to developing the

scientific basis for new energy and information technologies. In October 2007

he married Rosa Young, a physicist who had worked at ECD on numerous energy

technologies including a hydrogen-powered hybrid car and on Ovshinsky's vision

of a hydrogen-based economy. Ovshinsky

was born and grew up in the industrial town of Akron, Ohio, then at the center of the American rubber

industry. The elder son of working-class Lithuanian Jewish immigrant parents who left Eastern Europe around 1905—Benjamin Ovshinsky from Lithuania and Bertha Munitz from what is now Belarus—Ovshinsky became active in social activities at an

early age during the Great Depression.[7] His lifelong concern to better the lives of

workers and minorities, as well as to advance culture and the interests of

industry, derive largely from his father, who was a generous, liberal, and

highly cultured activist. With his horse and wagon, and later his truck, Ben

Ovshinsky made his living collecting scrap on his father's example, and on

teachings offered by the Akron Workmen's Circle, an organization mainly of Jewish immigrants

who believed in social justice, Stan

Ovshinsky developed a deep commitment to social values, including labor rights, civil rights, and civil liberties.