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Dean L. Kamen is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is best known for his invention of the Segway, as well as founding FIRST with Woodie Flowers.

Born to a Jewish family in Long Island, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for the insulin pump AutoSyringe. He is the son of Jack Kamen, an illustrator for Mad, Weird Science and other EC Comics publications.

✵ 5. April 1951
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Dean Kamen Quotes

“Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?”

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Iconoclasts: Isabella Rosselini & Dean Kamen (2006)

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“You can make it out of Unobtainium!”

Dean Kamen

2008 New York City FIRST Robotics Competition Awards Ceremony (2008)

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