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Hugh Herr climbs the wall at the MIT Media Lab's h2.0 symposium on May 9, 2007, watched by fellow bilateral amputee Aimee Mullins. While a postdoctoral fellow at MIT in biomedical devices, Herr began working on advanced leg prostheses and orthoses, devices that emulate the functionality of the human leg. [1]
Mullins' prosthetic leg shown at CCCB exhibit in Barcelona, October 2015 Mullins watches fellow bilateral amputee Hugh Herr climb the wall at MIT Media Lab's h2.0 symposium, May 9, 2007. Mullins was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania , US to an Irish father Bernard Mullins from Crusheen , County Clare , Ireland and mother Bernadette Mullins.
She was the first American female double amputee from the Iraq War. [4] The explosion severely broke her right arm and tore tissue from it, necessitating major surgery to repair it. Duckworth received a Purple Heart [ 36 ] on December 3 and was promoted to the rank of major on December 21 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center , [ 37 ] where she ...
In a small apartment in Doha, capital of the wealthy Gulf Arab state, Ajjour's mother slowly eases him into his uniform to help him get ready for school. The rocket hit as he was walking away from ...
Marie Moentmann (1900–1974) was a 15-year-old girl who lost her hands and full use of both arms in a factory accident in 1915 in St. Louis, Missouri. Marie Moentmann, recuperating in a hospital, December 1915. She became a center of public attention in what the St. Louis Post-Dispatch called an "extraordinary case." Charity events were held ...
Amy Palmiero-Winters (born August 18, 1972) is a below-knee amputee, long-distance runner, and triathlete. She holds eleven world records in various events. In 2010, she was awarded the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States and the ESPN ESPY Award as the top female athlete with a disability in the world.
Arunima Sinha was born in Ambedkar Nagar near Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.Her father was in the Indian Army and her mother was a supervisor in the health department. She has an elder sister and a younger brother.
(Reuters) - Australia's Macquarie on Tuesday agreed to take a 15% stake in Applied Digital's high-performance computing business and invest up to $5 billion in the company's artificial ...