Honorary Unsubscribe v5

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The fifth book in the This is True Honorary Unsubscribe series includes 150 stories about “The People You Will Wish You Had Known”. The period covered is 2010 through 2012. 161 pages, 5.5×8.5″.

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150 Amazing People

This fifth volume of astonishing people has more amazing inventors: the teens who came up with the Frisbee, and the snowboard. The physicists who figured out how to do digital photography “in not more than an hour” — and why they needed to invent it.

The pioneers in computers, including the inventor of the laptop, and the inventor of ebooks. The creators of some of the best TV you’ve ever seen.

Accomplished women such as the first computer programmer, the secretary who “saved” The Diary of Anne Frank, the first female TV director. The physicist who figured out how to make blue and ultraviolet LEDs, which enabled new technologies and industries. The researcher who “brought about a revolution in biological and medical research,” winning her the Nobel Prize.

Brilliant writers, cartoonists, and musicians. The teachers and rocket scientists who worked to show us new things. The doctor who “prevented more cancer deaths than any person who’s ever lived,” and the doctor who figured out organ transplants, and the one who figured out in vitro fertilization.

The mainstream media tend to worship celebrities and sports figures, but the real heroes in life are often anonymous to the public. Each of the stories will make you realize the cool people you have missed in your midst. These are the people you will wish you had known.

The Honorees

1. Mind-body connector Robert Ader
2. Comic-Con co-founder Richard Alf
3. Carpet mogul Ray C. Anderson
4. Chemist James R. Arnold
5. Lucy’s director William Asher
6. Book editor Larry Ashmead
7. Hybridizer John Aylesworth
8. Ballroom dancer George Ballas
9. Pioneering computer programmer Jean Bartik
10. Hepatitis B foe R. Palmer Beasley
11. Transplant enabler Baruj Benacerraf
12. Recomposer Frank Bender
13. Cardiologist Richard J. Bing
14. Healthful antagonist James W. Black
15. The statistically relevant David Blackwell
16. Disease researcher Baruch Blumberg
17. Comedy director Paul Bogart
18. Bell physicist Willard Boyle
19. Concentration camp photographer Wilhelm Brasse
20. Imagination inducer Himan Brown
21. Photojournalist Malcolm Browne
22. School reformer Saul Bruckner
23. TV director Frances Buss Buch
24. World War I veteran Frank W. Buckles
25. The elderly (and he loved it) Robert Butler
26. TV editor Dann Cahn
27. Politically incorrect cartoonist John Callahan
28. Rubber-faced comedian Charlie Callas
29. Prolific dyslexic Stephen J. Cannell
30. Technology Ethicist Gary Chapman
31. Film critic Judith Crist
32. Violinist Clair Cline
33. Ecologist Barry Commoner
34. The habitual Stephen Covey
35. WASP flier Violet Cowden
36. Panelist Leo Cullum
37. Emmy-winning comedy writer Sam Denoff
38. Pediatrician Leila Denmark
39. Piano teacher Capitola Dickerson
40. Bomber pilot Mariya Dolina
41. Pox expert Frank Fenner
42. Safety engineer John Fitch
43. Leader William P. Foster
44. Communications innovator Robert W. Galvin
45. Polymath Martin Gardner
46. LEM Team Head Joseph Gavin
47. Memory savior Miep Gies
48. “Mr. Coffee” Samuel Glazer
49. Giant Killer John Goeken
50. Innovation enabler Jack Goldman
51. “Green Nobel Prize” founder Richard N. Goldman
52. “Death with Dignity” activist Peter Goodwin
53. Rocket scientist Walter Haeussermann
54. Atheist theologian William Hamilton
55. Suara Auru Fred Hargesheimer
56. Ebook inventor Michael Stern Hart
57. Swiss businessman Nicolas Hayek
58. Ronald McDonald inspiration Kim Hill
59. Blacklisted doctor Joseph Hittelman
60. Police officer Celena Hollis
61. Star Gazer Jack Horkheimer
62. Inventor Ronald Howes Sr
63. Sea kayaker Derek Hutchinson
64. Art designer Stan Jolley
65. The prolific Bill Justice
66. Panel cartoonist Bil Keane
67. Klan unmasker Stetson Kennedy
68. Children’s book author Ronald King-Smith
69. The Golden-Eared Don Kirshner
70. Pinball wizard Steve Kordek
71. Godfather of Fitness Jack LaLanne
72. Hospice pioneer William Lamers Jr.
73. Chipwich inventor Richard LaMotta
74. Photographer of history Marty Lederhandler
75. Cross-sectional imager Robert Ledley
76. Microcharity pioneer Mildred Leet
77. Songwriter Jerry Leiber
78. Workplace civilizer Harry Levinson
79. Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini
80. Terrorist thwarter Reginald Levy
81. House Party host Art Linkletter
82. D-Day hero Leonard Lomell
83. Skiing spymaster Peter Lunn
84. The fractalized Benoit Mandelbrot
85. Space artist Robert McCall
86. Mystery novelist Ralph McInerny
87. Firefighters’ helper William Mensing
88. Laptop innovator Bill Moggridge
89. Arms control analyst Roger Molander
90. Astronomy educator Patrick Moore
91. Luthier extraordinaire Rene Morel
92. Frisbee inventor Walter Morrison
93. Cold type inventer Louis Moyroud
94. Transplant pioneer Joseph E. Murray
95. Libyan Journalist Mohammed Nabbous
96. Khmer Rouge survivor Vann Nath
97. Freedom Rider Gordon Negen
98. Win-win Negotiator Gerard Nierenberg
99. Supertramper George Nissen
100. ALS researcher Richard K. Olney
101. The woman behind the successful man Barbara Orbison
102. Tech innovator Stanford Ovshinsky
103. Pizza roller Jeno Paulucci
104. Resistance fighter Andree Peel
105. The very conscious Fred Plum
106. Remotely famous Eugene Polley
107. Digital designer Victor Poor
108. Lucy writer Madelyn Pugh
109. Thinker Anthony Quinton
110. Right-on-time Physicist Norman Ramsey
111. Computer prodigy Arfa Karim Randhawa
112. School bus driver Frank Edward Ray
113. Comedy director John Rich
114. Boy-voiced Billie Mae Richards
115. Savvy nun Agnes Turk Richardson
116. Operating system pioneer Dennis Ritchie
117. The Angel of the Gap Don Ritchie
118. PC inventor H. Edward Roberts
119. Illuminated physicist Gertrude Neumark Rothschild
120. “Sheriff” John Rovick
121. World-saving chemist F. Sherwood Rowland
122. Andy Griffith Show writer Aaron Ruben
123. Pussycat Tura Satana
124. The anti-cancer David Servan-Schreiber
125. Model Joanne Siegel
126. Snowboard inventor Tom Sims
127. TV composer Fred Steiner
128. Research psychiatrist Daniel Stern
129. The adjective, noun Leonard Stern
130. Game Show creator Bob Stewart
131. Goony comedian Eric Sykes
132. Cartoonist Jim Unger
133. Forgotten hero George Vujnovich
134. Democracy proponent Szeto Wah
135. Kangaroo Neighbor James E. Wall
136. Guitar teacher to the World Bert Weedon
137. White Room dictator Güenter Wendt
138. Literary hotelier George Whitman
139. The completely innocent George Whitmore Jr
140. Dogface extraordinaire Paul Wiedorfer
141. Ziggy creator Tom Wilson
142. Persistent writer Dick Wimmer
143. “Ask Beth” columnist Elizabeth Winship
144. TV producer David Wolper
145. IVF pioneer Carl Wood
146. Barcode inventor N. Joseph Woodland
147. Nobel laureate Rosalyn Yalow
148. Chinese toddler Wang Yue
149. Columnist and author Jeffrey Zaslow
150. Salmon River Caveman Richard Zimmerman