Maurice Kanbar

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Maurice Kanbar is a New York native entrepreneur and inventor who lives in San Francisco, California born in 1929. He created New York's first multiplex cinema, and owns over 36 patents on various consumer and medical products, invented the D-Fuzz-It comb for sweaters, Tangoes Puzzle Game, the Safetyglide hypodermic needle protector, a cryogenic cataract remover, and a new LED traffic light. In the beverage industry, Kanbar had a success with SKYY vodka and has recently launched Vermeer Dutch Chocolate Cream Liqueur.

Kanbar is a graduate of Philadelphia University, where he studied Materials Science. In 2005, he donated $6 million dollars for the construction of the school's new campus center.

He produced the animated film "Hoodwinked" which was released in January 2006.

Mr. Kanbar owns many commercial buildings in Tulsa, Oklahoma in conjunction with Henry Kaufman - http://www.batesline.com/archives/2006/02/how-kanbar-and.html

Tisch School of the Arts, part of New York University, named its film school after him: The Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television.

Kanbar is a member of Mensa.[1]

[edit] Bibliography

  • Secrets from an Inventor's Notebook, by Maurice Kanbar, Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-200056-6

[edit] References

  1. ^ American Mensa. "Famous and Notable Mensans (whitepaper)" (PDF). Retrieved on 2007-10-15.

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