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Dean Kamen
Dean Lawrence Kamen is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is known for his invention of the Segway and iBOT, as well as founding the non-profit organization FIRST with Woodie Flowers. Kamen holds over 1,000 patents.
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business · American businessman (born 1951) · entrepreneur · inventor · also Dean Kamen, Dean L. Kamen, Dean Lawrence Kamen, Kamen
Born 5 April 1951 · Q720457
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2026· 4 entries
Kamen voluntarily resigned from the FIRST Board of Directors and withdrew from all FIRST activities
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Yahoo: Dean Kamen on leave from FIRST amid review into Epstein involvement
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Kamen was put on a leave of absence due to his ties with Jeffrey Epstein
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2021· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Dean Kamen, Founder of FIRST, Flying the B-2 Stealth Bomber: This One Time
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2017· 3 entries
Kamen was honored with an institutional honorary degree from Université de Sherbrooke
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Kamen founded the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute along with McCoy Mathies (ARMI) and launched BioFabUSA, a Manufacturing USA Innovation Institute with an $80 million grant from the Department of Defense
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FIRST held its first Olympics-style competition – FGC (FIRST Global Challenge) – in Washington, D
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2016· 1 entry
Flew as a passenger in a B-2 Spirit bomber at Whiteman AFB, marking the opening of the 2016 FRC World Championship in St
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2015· 1 entry
Kamen received an honorary Doctor of Engineering and Technology degree from Yale University
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2014· 1 entry
The film SlingShot was released, detailing Kamen's quest to use his vapor compression distiller to fix the world's water crisis
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2011· 1 entry
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (2011).
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2010· 1 entry
Kamen called FIRST the invention he is most proud of, and said that 1 million students had taken part in the contests
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2009· 4 entries
Given by the Stevens Institute of Technology and the Stevens Alumni Association
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Awarded IRI Achievement Award (2009).
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And an honorary doctorate from the Wentworth Institute of Technology when he spoke at the college's centennial celebration in 2004, and other honorary doctorates from North Carolina State University in 2005, Bates Colleg
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Kamen stated that his company DEKA was now working on solar powered inventions
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Washington Award (2008).
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2007· 4 entries
Won ASME Medal (2007).
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The Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008, the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2008 the Plymouth State University in May 2008 and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2012
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Received the ASME Medal, the highest award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, in 2008 he was the recipient of the IRI Achievement Award from the Industrial Research Institute, and in 2011 Kamen was awa
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His residence was a hexagonal, shed style mansion he dubbed Westwind, located in Bedford, New Hampshire, just outside Manchester
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2006· 1 entry
Kamen was awarded the "Global Humanitarian Action Award" by the United Nations
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2005).
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Was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his invention of the AutoSyringe
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2003· 4 entries
(released in paperback as Reinventing the Wheel)
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“s Necker Island, and claimed to have no connection with Epstein. His name had earlier appeared in the 2003 flight logs of Epstein”
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His "Project Slingshot", an inexpensive portable water purification system, was named a runner-up for "coolest invention of 2003" by Time magazine
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He is the main subject of Code Name Ginger: the Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World, a nonfiction narrative book by journalist Steve Kemper published by Harvard Business School Press in 2003 (released in paperback as Reinventing the Wheel).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Lemelson–MIT Prize (2002).
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2000· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2000).
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Heinz Award (1999).
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Was awarded the 5th Annual Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy and Employment, and in 2000 received the National Medal of Technology from then President Clinton for inventions that have advanced medical care worldw
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1997· 2 entries
Won Edwin F. Church Medal (1997).
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For inventing and commercializing biomedical devices and fluid measurement and control systems, and for popularizing engineering among young people
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1995· 1 entry
Won Hoover Medal (1995).
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1992· 2 entries
Working with MIT Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers, Kamen created the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), which evolved into an international competition that by 2020 had drawn 3,647 teams and more than 91,000 students
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute May 17, 1996, a Doctor of Engineering degree from Kettering University in 2001, an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Clarkson University on May 13, 2001, an honorary "Doctor of Scien
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1989· 1 entry
Kamen founded FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an organization intended to build students' interests in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
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1976· 1 entry
Before graduating, after five years of private advanced research for the insulin pump AutoSyringe
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1951· 2 entries
On Long Island, New York, to Jack Kamen and Evelyn Kamen (born Rothenberg)
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Born 1951-04-05.
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