Editing Dean Kamen (section)

==Early life and family==
Kamen was born on [[Long Island]], [[New York (state)|New York]], to a [[Jewish]] family.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/63620/|title=Segway inventor Dean Kamen brings his high-tech vision to Israel |last= Kraft| first= Dina|newspaper=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles]]|date=April 24, 2008|access-date=August 3, 2019}}</ref> 
His father was [[Jack Kamen]], an illustrator for ''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad]]'', ''[[Weird Science (comic)|Weird Science]]'' and other [[EC Comics]] publications. During his teenage years, Kamen was already being paid for his ideas; local bands and museums paid him to build light and sound systems. His annual earnings reached $60,000 before his high school graduation.<ref name=":2" />

He attended [[Worcester Polytechnic Institute]], but in 1976<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pure Genius: How Dean Kamen's Invention Could Bring Clean Water To Millions {{!}} Richard Dawkins Foundation|url=https://www.richarddawkins.net/2014/06/pure-genius-how-dean-kamens-invention-could-bring-clean-water-to-millions/|access-date=2020-06-25|website=www.richarddawkins.net|date=June 17, 2014}}</ref> quit before graduating, after five years of private advanced research for the [[insulin pump]] AutoSyringe.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.freepatentsonline.com/result.html?p=1&edit_alert=&srch=xprtsrch&query_txt=IN%2F%22kamen+dean%22&uspat=on&usapp=on&date_range=all&stemming=on&sort=chron&search=Search| title=AutoSyringe|publisher=freepatentsonline.com|access-date=April 28, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| website= mit.edu| url= http://web.mit.edu/invent/n-pressreleases/n-press-02LMP.html| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030306163546/http://web.mit.edu/invent/n-pressreleases/n-press-02LMP.html| url-status= dead| archive-date= March 6, 2003|title=$500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize Awarded To Dean Kamen |publisher= Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering|access-date=April 28, 2012}}</ref>