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Reiffel, Leonard
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Leonard Reiffel was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 30, 1927. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and a doctorate in electrical engineering and physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He worked for a year at the University of Chicago for the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, delivered radio commentaries on science that won a Peabody Award, consulted for the Apollo program's scientific staff, and ran a company that developed teleconferencing products. Reiffel invented the Telestrator, which allows sports announcers to draw lines and circles on a television screen to show how a play developed. He won an Emmy Award in engineering for the invention in 2005. His novel, The Contaminant, was published in 1978. He died from complications of pancreatic cancer on April 15, 2017 at the age of 89.
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