from World's Most Innovative Minds
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Mitchell Baker
Open-Source Pioneer
Baker led the release of the Firefox browser and other end-user products.
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Don Chadwick
Product Designer
Chadwick is an award-winning industrial designer, who along with Bill Stumpf, designed the Aeron Chair
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William McDonough
Architect & Designer
McDonough is best known as a pioneer in the green design movement. creating buildings, designs, and strategies that are "environmentally intelligent"
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Toshiko Mori
Architect
Mori is an architect and educator, who is renowned for her research-based approach to design and architecture.
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Elon Musk
Founder, PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla Motors & Solar City
From his early days teaching himself to program computers, Elon Musk has worked to improve the quality of life for everyone through technology.
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Pierre Omidyar
Founder, eBay & Omidyar Network
The work of Omidyar was one of the driving forces behind the rise of the internet as a consumer, community, and cultural destination.
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Stan Ovshinsky
Visionary of Solar-Hydrogen-Based Economy
Ovshinsky, together with his late wife Iris, developed an array of energy and information-related inventions that have advanced technologies and industries.
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Carroll Shelby
Automotive Designer
In 1962 Shelby designed the Cobra sports car and went on to become one of the premier high-performance automobile designers.
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Lyn St. James
Record Breaker, Businesswoman
Lyn St. James helped a new generation of women break into the traditionally male-dominated sport.
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Steve Wozniak
Co-Founder, Apple Computer
Wozniak's inventions and machines are credited with contributing greatly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s.
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Thomas Edison
Inventor, Leader
Thomas Edison is one of the prolific inventors who ever lived. His breakthroughs have had a profound effect on virtually every aspect of daily life.
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Henry Ford
Founder, Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford's innovations, such as the Model T and the development of the modern assembly line, revolutionized the way the world travels.
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Buckminster Fuller
Visionary Thinker, Serial Entrepreneur
For Buckminster Fuller, the answer is usually yes—though not necessarily as planned or envisioned.
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Rosa Parks
Civil Rights Activist
Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger awakened people everywhere to see how the world could be different.
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Wilbur and Orville Wright
Problem Solvers
When it came to the problem of flight, Wilbur and Orville Wrights' systematic approach led to insights that simply eluded their contemporaries.