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Other Prominent STEM Cousins

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Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 – January 8, 1825) was an American
inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key
inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of
the Antebellum South. Whitney's invention made upland short cotton into
a profitable crop, which strengthened the economic foundation of slavery
in the United States.
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John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015) was an
American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game
theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential
equations. Nash's work has provided insight into the factors that govern
chance and decision-making inside complex systems found in everyday
life. His struggles with mental illness and his recovery became the basis
for Sylvia Nasar's biography, A Beautiful Mind, as well as a film of the
John Forbes Nash same name starring Russell Crowe as Nash.

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Harvey Fletcher (September 11, 1884 – July 23, 1981) was
an American physicist. Known as the "father of stereophonic sound," he is
credited with the invention of the 2-A audiometer and an early
electronic hearing aid. He was an investigator into the nature of speech
and hearing, and made contributions in acoustics, electrical engineering,
speech, medicine, music, atomic physics, sound pictures, and education.

Harvey Fletcher

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