Dean Kamen

Dean L. Kamen ( born April 5, 1951 in Rockville Centre, Long Iceland, New York) is an American entrepreneur and inventor. A study at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he broke off. His father is Jack Kamen, an illustrator of Weird Science and other EC Comics.

Inventions

Kamen's most famous invention is the Segway Personal Transporter, a revolutionary electric scooter for passenger transport. Previously, Kamen had already invented the innovative iBot ( electric wheelchair), climb up the stairs and can lift its user to eye level with standing people. Leading the way in the medical field was Kamen's invention of a mobile dialysis system.

Awards

Kamen has been honored for his many inventions. He was elected in 1997 in the American National Academy of Engineering in 2000 and honored by the then U.S. President Bill Clinton with the National Medal of Technology. 2002 Kamen was awarded the Lemelson -MIT Prize for inventors. 2005 Kamen was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame American and winner of the 2006 Global Humanitarian Action Award from the United Nations. In 2011 he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal. Kamen has honorary doctorates from Kettering University (2001), the Wentworth Institute of Technology (2004), Bates College (2007), the Georgia Institute of Technology (2008) and Plymouth State University ( 2008).

FIRST

As early as 1989 Kamen founded in the U.S. robotics organization For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology ( FIRST) to introduce students to the high school to scientific thinking and enthusiasm for application-related technologies. Since 1992, FIRST organizes an annual robotics competition in which high school teams build robots have to deal with a request by FIRST task. 2008 Regional competitions in the USA, Israel and Brazil took place, who participated in which over 1,500 teams with a total of more than 37,000 students in the high school age. Kamen is still the driving force of FIRST.