Ong showing the ‘Pioneer in Tocotrienol Reserach’ award he received for his study on palm oil. In the background is the photograph of him with theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Who are inventors?
Some notable names would come to mind — from Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Alva Edison, Wright brothers, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Karl Benz, Nikola Tesla to modern-day Internet-age inventors such as Tim Berners-Lee, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
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