Groundbreaking inventions of Hollywood screen legend Hedy Lamarr topic of Feb. 27 talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes

February 19, 2013

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes will discuss his new book “Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World” Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m., in University of Richmond’s Camp Concert Hall. The lecture is part of the 2012-13 Jepson Leadership Forum.

The talk will focus on the legendary Hollywood actress’s inventions that helped the Allied war effort during World War II and led to the technology for wireless communication.

Rhodes earned a 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award for "The Making of the Atomic Bomb.” His book, “Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb,” was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in History. Rhodes has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and a host and correspondent for different television series, including “Frontline” and “American Experience.”

Tickets are free and can be reserved by calling the Modlin Center Box Office at (804) 289-8980.

The talk is cosponsored by the Department of History and the Department of Journalism and part of the James MacGregor Burns Lectureship in Leadership Studies and Biography.