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Martine
Rothblatt
Martine Rothblatt is responsible for launching several satellite
communications companies, including the first nationwide vehicle
location system (Geostar, 1983), the first private international
spacecom project (PanAmSat, 1984), the first global satellite
radio network (WorldSpace, 1990), and the first non-geostationary
satellite-to-car broadcasting system (Sirius, 1990). As an attorney-entrepreneur
she was also responsible for leading the efforts to obtain worldwide
approval, via new international treaties, of satellite orbit/spectrum
allocations for space-based navigation services (1987) and for
direct-to-person satellite radio transmissions (1992). In the
1990s Dr. Rothblatt entered the life sciences field by leading
the International Bar Association's project to develop a draft
Human Genome Treaty for the United Nations (submitted in 1999),
and by founding a biotechnology company, United Therapeutics (1996).
Dr. Rothblatt is the author of books on satellite communications
technology (Radiodetermination Satellite Services and Standards,
Artech, 1987), gender freedom (Apartheid of Sex, Crown, 1995),
genomics (Unzipped Genes, Temple University Press, 1997) and xenotransplantation
(Your Life or Mine, Ashgate House, 2003). She is also cyberscripted
and produced one of the first cybermuseums, the World Against
Racism Museum, www.endracism.org.
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