Dean L. Kamen (born April 5, 1951) is an American entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire.Born on Long Island, New York, he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute, but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for the drug infusion pump AutoSyringe.He is the son of Jack Kamen, an illustrator for Mad, Weird Science and other EC Comics publications.In 2011 Kamen was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering of the Franklin Institute.