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Dec. 02, 2011
The Beauty and Brains Behind ‘Hedy’s Folly’
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| In a new book, Pulitzer Prize winning writer Richard Rhodes tells the behind-the-scenes story of movie star--and inventor-- Hedy Lamarr, "the most beautiful woman in the world." Lamarr invented "frequency hopping," a concept that’s still used in today’s wireless technology. |
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Richard Rhodes
Author, "Hedy's Folly: The Life And Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr...." (Doubleday, 2011)
Journalist; Pulitzer Prize Winner, general nonfiction, 1988
Half Moon Bay, California
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