List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees

The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) inductees includes over 500 inventors spanning three centuries of lifetimes. John Fitch was the earliest born inventor inducted into the NIHF (1743), while Barrett Comiskey is currently the most recently born (1975).

Key

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 Denotes inventor was also awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)'s Medal of Honor,
given for an exceptional contribution or extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest

Inductees

Inductee Birth Death Notable Year NIHF
Edward Goodrich Acheson 1856 1931 Carborundum 1997
Leonard Adleman 1945 — RSA crytography 2018
Robert Adler 1913 2007 Television remote control 2008
Herman Affel 1893 1972 Coaxial cable 2006
Howard Aiken 1900 1973 Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I) 2014
JD Albert 1975 — Electronic ink 2016
George Edward Alcorn, Jr. 1940 — X-ray spectrometer 2015
Samuel W. Alderson 1914 2005 Crash test dummy 2013
Ernst Alexanderson* 1878 1975 Radio 1983
Andrew Alford 1904 1992 VHF omnidirectional range 1983
Samuel Leeds Allen 1841 1918 Flexible flyer sled 2007
Luis Walter Alvarez 1911 1988 Radio distance and direction indicator; Hydrogen bubble chamber 1978
Iver Anderson 1953 — Lead-free solder 2017
Mary Anderson 1866 1953 Windshield wiper 2011
Roger Angel 1941 — Telescope mirror cell 2016
George Antheil 1900 1959 Frequency-hopping spread spectrum 2014
Thomas Armat 1866 1948 Movie projector 2011
Don Arney 1947 — Bambi bucket for aerial firefighting 2017
Edwin Howard Armstrong* 1890 1954 FM radio 1980
Frances Arnold 1956 — Evolution of enzymes 2014
Arthur Ashkin 1922 — Optical trapping 2013
Martin Atalla 1924 2009 MOSFET 2009
Alpheus Babcock 1785 1842 Cast iron piano frame 2007
George Herman Babcock 1832 1893 Steam generator 1997
Roger Bacon 1926 2007 Carbon fibers 2016
Leo Baekeland 1863 1944 Bakelite 1978
Ralph Baer 1922 2014 Television gaming and training apparatus 2010
Rodney Bagley 1934 — Substrate for catalytic converters 2002
Matthias W. Baldwin 1795 1866 Steam locomotive 2005
B. Jayant Baliga 1948 — Insulated-gate bipolar transistor 2016
Robert Banks 1921 1989 Polypropylene plastics 2001
Frederick Banting 1891 1941 Isolated and purified insulin 2004
Paul Baran 1926 2011 Digital packet switching 2007
John Bardeen* 1908 1991 Transistor 1974
C. Donald Bateman 1932 — Ground proximity warning system 2005
Andrew Jackson Beard 1849 1921 Improved Janney coupler for railroad cars 2006
Arnold Orville Beckman 1900 2004 pH meter 1987
Semi Joseph Begun 1905 1995 Magnetic recording 1998
Alexander Graham Bell 1847 1922 Telephone 1974
Ruth R. Benerito 1916 2013 Wrinkle-free cotton 2008
Willard Harrison Bennett 1903 1987 Mass spectrometry 1991
Emile Berliner 1851 1929 Gramophone and microphone 1994
Carolyn Bertozzi 1966 — Bioorthogonal Chemistry 2017
Henry Bessemer 1813 1898 Bessemer process for steel production 2002
Charles Herbert Best 1899 1978 Isolation of insulin 2004
Erastus Brigham Bigelow 1814 1879 Powered loom 2006
Edwin Binney 1866 1934 Carbon black manufacturing 2011
Gerd Binnig 1947 — Scanning tunneling microscope 1994
Forrest Bird 1921 2015 Respirator / Ventilator 1995
John Birden 1918 2011 Radioisotope thermoelectric generator 2013
Clarence Birdseye 1886 1956 Frozen food 2005
László Bíró 1899 1985 Ballpoint pen 2007
Donald Bitzer 1934 — Plasma display 2013
Harold Stephen Black 1898 1983 Feedback amplifier 1981
Eli Whitney Blake 1795 1886 Machine for crushing stone 2007
Helen Blanchard 1840 1922 Innovations to sewing machine 2006
Thomas Blanchard 1788 1864 Pattern lathe 2006
Katharine Burr Blodgett 1898 1979 Langmuir-Blodgett film 2007
Samuel E. Blum 1920 2013 LASIK eye surgery 2002
Baruch Samuel Blumberg 1925 2011 Vaccine for hepatitis B 1993
James Bogardus 1800 1874 Iron frame building 2007
Nils Bohlin 1920 2002 Safety belt 2002
Gail Borden 1801 1874 Process for condensed milk 2006
Carl Bosch 1874 1940 Haber-Bosch process for ammonia production 2006
Amar Bose 1929 2013 Audio feedback control 2008
Robert W. Bower 1936 — MOSFET 1997
Bill Bowerman 1911 1999 Modern athletic shoe 2014
Seth Boyden 1788 1870 Process for making malleable iron 2006
Herbert Boyer 1936 — Genetic engineering 2001
Otis Boykin 1920 1982 Electrical resistor 2014
Willard Boyle 1924 2011 Charge coupled device 2006
Milton Bradley 1836 1911 Game board 2006
Jacques E. Brandenberger 1872 1954 Cellophane 2006
Per-Ingvar Brånemark 1929 2014 Dental implant 2016
Charles F. Brannock 1903 1992 Brannock device for foot measuring 1992
Walter Houser Brattain 1902 1987 Transistor 1974
Yvonne Brill 1924 2013 Dual thrust level monopropellant spacecraft propulsion system 2010
Garrett Brown 1942 — Steadicam Camera stabilizer 2013
Rachel Fuller Brown 1898 1980 Nystatin antifungal 1994
John Browning 1855 1926 Breech-loading rifle 2007
Charles F. Brush 1849 1929 Arc light for street lighting 2006
Francis R. Bundy 1910 2008 Diamond synthesis 2010
Luther Burbank 1849 1926 Plant breeding 1986
Joseph H. Burckhalter 1912 2004 Isothiocyanates 1995
John F. Burke 1922 2011 Artificial skin 2015
William Seward Burroughs I 1857 1898 Adding machine 1987
William Merriam Burton 1865 1954 Catalytic cracking 1984
Vannevar Bush 1890 1974 Differential analyzer 2004
Edward A. Calahan 1838 1912 Stock ticker 2006
Donald L. Campbell 1904 2002 Catalytic cracking 1999
George Ashley Campbell 1870 1954 Loading coil 2011
Marvin Camras 1916 1995 Magnetic recording 1985
Chester Carlson 1906 1968 Xerographic printing 1981
Wallace Carothers 1896 1937 Synthetic rubber, nylon 1984
Willis Carrier 1876 1950 Air conditioner 1985
George Robert Carruthers 1939 — Ultraviolet camera 2003
Marvin Caruthers 1940 — Chemical synthesis of DNA 2018
George Washington Carver 1864 1943 Peanut products 1990
Frank Cepollina 1936 — Satellite servicing techniques 2003
Vint Cerf 1943 — Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) 2006
Daryl Chapin 1906 1995 Solar cell 2008
Emmett Chappelle 1925 — Bioluminescence 2007
John Charnley 1911 1982 Hip replacement surgery 2008
Mary-Dell Chilton 1939 — Transgenic plant 2015
Alfred Y. Cho* 1937 — Molecular beam epitaxy 2009
Edith Clarke 1883 1959 Graphical calculator 2015
Georges Claude 1870 1960 Neon light 2007
Josephine Cochrane 1839 1913 Dishwasher 2006
Stanley Norman Cohen 1935 — Genetic engineering 2001
James Collip 1892 1965 Isolated and purified insulin 2004
Samuel Colt 1814 1862 Colt revolver with interchangeable parts 2006
Frank B. Colton 1923 2003 Oral contraceptives 1988
Barrett Comiskey 1975 — Electronic ink 2016
Lloyd Conover 1923 2017 Tetracycline 1992
William D. Coolidge 1873 1975 X-ray tube 1975
Peter Cooper 1791 1883 Steam locomotive 2006
Harry Coover 1917 2011 Superglue 2004
George Henry Corliss 1817 1888 Improvements to steam engine 2006
Martha Coston 1826 1904 Signal flare used for ships 2006
Frederick Gardner Cottrell 1877 1948 Electrostatic precipitator 1992
Wallace H. Coulter 1913 1998 Coulter principle 2004
Jacques Cousteau 1910 1997 Diving unit 2010
Joshua Lionel Cowen 1877 1965 Model train 2007
Eckley Coxe 1839 1895 Traveling grate furnace 2006
Seymour Cray 1925 1996 Supercomputer 1997
George Crompton 1829 1886 Loom 2007
David Crosthwait 1898 1976 Heating and ventilation system 2014
Glenn Curtiss 1878 1930 Hydroplane 2003
David Cushman 1939 2000 Captopril 2007
Gottlieb Daimler 1834 1900 Design of automobile and motorcycle engines 2006
Raymond Vahan Damadian 1936 — Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) 1989
John Daugman 1954 — Iris recognition algorithm 2013
Donald Davies 1924 2000 Digital packet switching 2007
Lee De Forest* 1873 1961 Audion amplifier tube 1977
George de Mestral 1907 1990 Velcro 1999
Mark Dean 1957 — Computer peripherals 1997
John Deere 1804 1886 Farm plow 1989
Robert H. Dennard* 1932 — Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) 1997
George Devol 1912 2011 Industrial robot 2011
Albert Dick 1856 1934 Duplicating machine 2011
Earle Dickson 1892 1961 Band-Aid 2017
Rudolf Diesel 1858 1913 Internal-combustion engine 1976
Whitfield Diffie 1944 — Public-key cryptography 2011
Richard DiMarchi 1952 — Insulin Lispro 2014
Walt Disney 1901 1966 Multiplane camera 2000
Carl Djerassi 1923 2015 Oral contraceptives 1978
Ray Dolby 1933 2013 Dolby noise reduction 2004
Marion Donovan 1917 1998 Waterproof diaper cover 2015
Herbert Henry Dow 1866 1930 Bromine extraction 1983
Charles Stark Draper 1901 1987 Stabilizing gyroscopic 1981
Mildred Dresselhaus 1930 2017 Lattice structure 2014
Charles R. Drew 1904 1950 Surgical needle 2015
Richard Gurley Drew 1899 1980 Adhesive tape 2007
Philip Drinker 1894 1972 Iron lung 2007
John Boyd Dunlop 1840 1921 Pneumatic tire 2006
Graham J. Durant 1934 2009 Cimetidine 1990
Benjamin Durfee 1897 1980 Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I) 2014
George Eastman 1854 1932 Photography 1977
Roger L. Easton 1921 2014 TIMATION satellite navigation system 2010
J. Presper Eckert 1919 1995 ENIAC 2002
Harold Eugene Edgerton 1903 1990 Stroboscope photography 1986
Thomas Edison 1847 1931 Electric lighting, motion pictures, phonograph 1973
Alfred Einhorn 1856 1917 Novocain 2007
Willem Einthoven 1860 1927 Electrocardiograph 2008
Gertrude B. Elion 1918 1999 Leukemia drug 1991
Carleton Ellis 1876 1941 Margarine 2011
John Colin Emmett 1939 — Cimetidine 1990
Akira Endo 1933 — Mevastatin 2012
Douglas Engelbart 1925 2013 Computer mouse 1998
John Ericsson 1803 1889 Screw propeller 1993
Lloyd Espenschied* 1889 1986 Coaxial cable 2006
Oliver Evans 1755 1819 High pressure steam engine 2001
Ole Evinrude 1877 1934 Outboard motor 2007
Maxime Faget 1921 2004 Space capsule 2003
Federico Faggin 1941 — Microprocessor 1996
Moses G. Farmer 1820 1893 Electric fire alarm system 2006
Philo Farnsworth 1906 1971 Television 1984
James Fergason 1934 2008 Liquid crystal display 1998
Enrico Fermi 1901 1954 Nuclear fission 1976
Reginald Fessenden* 1866 1932 AM radio 2000
Harvey Samuel Firestone 1868 1938 Pneumatic tire 2006
John Fitch 1743 1798 Steamboat 2006
Edith M. Flanigen 1929 — Molecular sieves 2004
Leonard Flom 1927 — Iris recognition algorithm 2013
Thomas J. Fogarty 1934 — Embolectomy catheter 2001
Judah Folkman 1933 2008 Angiogenesis inhibition 2010
Henry Ford 1863 1947 Automobile 1982
Jay Wright Forrester* 1918 2016 Random access memory (RAM) 1979
Eric Fossum 1957 — CMOS active pixel image sensor camera-on-a-chip 2011
John E. Franz 1929 — Roundup 2007
Alfred Free 1913 2000 Glucose detection for diabetes 2000
Helen Murray Free 1923 — Glucose detection for diabetes 2000
Ross Freeman 1948 1989 Configurable electrical circuit having configurable logic elements and configurable interconnects 2009
Harold E. Froehlich 1922 2007 Deep-sea submersible 2017
Dov Frohman 1939 — Erasable programmable read only memory array (EPROM) 2009
Arthur Fry 1931 — Post-it notes 2010
Calvin Souther Fuller 1902 1994 Solar Cell 2008
Robert Fulton 1765 1815 Steamboat 2006
Dennis Gabor* 1900 1979 Electron holography 2012
Ashok Gadgil 1950 — Water disinfection 2014
Émile Gagnan 1900 1979 Aqua-lung diving equipment 2010
Robert Gallo 1937 — HIV isolation 2004
Haren S. Gandhi 1941 2010 Automotive exhaust catalyst 2017
C. Robin Ganellin 1934 — Cimetidine 1990
Edmund Germer 1901 1987 Fluorescent lighting 1996
Ivan A. Getting 1912 2003 Global Positioning System (GPS) 2004
John Heysham Gibbon 1903 1973 Heart-lung machine 2004
King C. Gillette 1855 1932 Safety razor 2007
Charles Ginsburg 1920 1992 Video tape recording 1990
Joseph Glidden 1813 1906 Barbed wire 2006
Robert H. Goddard 1882 1945 Solid fuel rockets 1979
William Goddard 1913 1997 Hard drive and floppy disk 2007
Leopold Godowsky, Jr. 1900 1983 Kodachrome 2005
Peter Carl Goldmark 1906 1977 Long playing record 2007
Hannibal Goodwin 1822 1900 Transparent flexible nitrocellulose 2011
Charles Goodyear 1800 1860 Vulcanization of rubber 1976
Robert W. Gore 1937 — Gore-Tex 2006
Gordon Gould 1920 2005 Laser 1991
Zénobe Gramme 1826 1901 Direct-current dynamo 2006
Elisha Gray 1835 1901 Telephone and telegraph improvements 2007
Wilson Greatbatch 1919 2011 Heart pacemaker 1986
Leonard Greene 1918 2006 Aircraft stall warning 1991
Leroy Grumman 1895 1982 Retractable landing gear 2003
Robert Gundlach 1926 2010 Photocopier 2005
Jaap Haartsen 1963 — Bluetooth wireless technology 2015
Fritz Haber 1868 1934 Ammonia production process 2006
Charles Martin Hall 1863 1914 Aluminum production process 1976
Lloyd Hall 1894 1971 Food preservation 2004
Robert N. Hall 1919 2016 Magnetron 1994
Thomas Seavey Hall 1827 1880 Railroad signal 2007
Tracy Hall 1919 2008 Synthetic diamond 2010
Andrew Smith Hallidie 1836 1900 Cable car 2006
Francis E. Hamilton 1898 1972 Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I) 2014
John Hays Hammond, Jr. 1888 1965 Radio control 2011
William Edward Hanford 1908 1996 Polyurethane 1991
Eli Harari 1945 — Floating-gate EEPROM 2017
Walter Lincoln Hawkins 1911 1992 Polymer cable sheath 2010
Elizabeth Lee Hazen 1885 1975 Nystatin 1994
Howard Head 1914 1991 Laminated ski; oversized tennis racket 2017
M. Stephen Heilman 1933 — Defibrillator 2002
George H. Heilmeier* 1936 2014 Electro-optic liquid crystal device 2009
Martin Hellman 1945 — Public-key cryptography 2011
François Hennebique 1842 1921 Reinforced concrete construction 2011
Beulah Louise Henry 1887 1973 Ice cream freezer 2006
Peter Cooper Hewitt 1861 1921 Mercury-vapor lamp 2011
William Redington Hewlett 1913 2001 Audio signals 1992
Beatrice Hicks 1919 1979 Device for sensing gas density 2017
Rene Alphonse Higonnet 1902 1983 Phototypesetting machine 1985
Maurice Hilleman 1919 2005 Vaccines 2007
James Hillier 1915 2007 Electron microscope 1980
Richard March Hoe 1812 1886 Rotary printing press 2006
Jean Hoerni 1924 1997 Planar manufacturing process 2009
Marcian Hoff 1937 — Microprocessor 1996
Felix Hoffmann 1868 1946 Aspirin 2002
J. Paul Hogan 1919 2012 Polypropylene and HDPE 2001
John Philip Holland 1841 1914 Submarine 2007
Herman Hollerith 1860 1929 Recording data on a machine readable medium, punched card, tabulator 1990
Alexander Lyman Holley 1832 1882 Steelmaking 2006
Birdsill Holly 1820 1894 Fire hydrant 2006
Donald Holmes 1910 1980 Polyurethane 1991
Nick Holonyak* 1928 — visible light emitting diode 2008
Benjamin Holt 1849 1920 Tractor 2006
Stan Honey 1955 — Sports broadcast graphic enhancements 2018
Leroy Hood 1938 — DNA sequencer 2007
Erna Schneider Hoover 1926 — Computerized telephone switching 2008
Larry J. Hornbeck 1943 — Spatial light modulator and method 2009
Eugene Houdry 1892 1962 Catalytic cracking 1990
Godfrey Hounsfield 1919 2004 CAT scanner 2007
Elias Howe 1819 1867 Sewing machine 2004
George Hulett 1846 1923 Loading and unloading machine 2006
Chuck Hull 1939 — Stereolithography 2014
Walter Hunt 1796 1859 Safety pin 2006
John Wesley Hyatt 1837 1920 Celluloid 2006
James Franklin Hyde 1903 1999 Transparent silica 2000
Simon Ingersoll 1818 1894 Steam powered rock drill 2006
Frederic Eugene Ives 1856 1937 Color photography 2011
Irwin M. Jacobs 1933 — Spread spectrum multiple access communication system 2013
Joseph Jacobson 1965 — Electronic ink 2016
Ali Javan 1926 2016 Helium-neon laser 2006
Allene Jeanes 1906 1995 Dextran production; xanthan gum 2017
Alec Jeffreys 1950 — Genetic fingerprinting 2005
Charles Francis Jenkins 1867 1934 Movie projector 2011
Thomas Jennings 1791 1859 Dry scouring 2015
Steve Jobs 1955 2011 Personal computer, mobile phone, animated movie, digital publishing 2012
Amos E. Joel, Jr.* 1918 2008 Switching concept for cellular phones 2008
Clarence Johnson 1910 1990 Aircraft 2008
Kristina M. Johnson 1957 — Polarization-control technology 2015
Warren S. Johnson 1847 1911 Temperature control 2018
Frederick McKinley Jones 1893 1961 Refrigeration 2007
Howard S. Jones, Jr. 1921 2005 Conformal antenna 2018
Marshall Jones 1941 — Industrial laser 2017
Kenneth Jordan 1921 2008 Radioisotope thermoelectric generator 2013
Percy Lavon Julian 1899 1975 Cortisone synthesis 1990
Bob Kahn 1938 — Internet Protocol (IP) 2006
Dawon Kahng 1931 1992 Electric field controlled semiconductor device 2009
Charles Kaman 1919 2011 Innovations to helicopter 2003
Dean Kamen 1951 — Ambulatory infusion pump 2005
Sheldon Kaplan 1939 2009 Auto-injector 2016
Donald Keck 1941 — Optical fiber 1993
John Harvey Kellogg 1852 1943 Breakfast cereal 2006
Charles Kelman 1930 2004 Cataract surgery 2004
Clarence Kemp c. 1860 1911 Solar water heater 2011
Charles F. Kettering 1876 1958 Electric ignition 1980
Mary Dixon Kies 1752 1837 Process for weaving straw 2006
Jack Kilby* 1923 2005 Integrated circuit 1982
Albert Kingsbury 1863 1943 Thrust bearing 2007
Dale Kleist 1909 1998 Fiberglass 2006
Margaret E. Knight 1838 1914 Paper bag machine 2006
Willem Johan Kolff 1911 2009 Artificial heart 1985
Paul Kollsman 1900 1982 Altimeter 2003
William Justin Kroll 1889 1973 Titanium 2000
Raymond Kurzweil 1948 — Optical character recognition 2002
Stephanie Kwolek 1923 2014 Kevlar 1995
Irwin Lachman 1930 — Catalytic converter 2002
Clair Lake 1888 1958 Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I) 2014
Hedy Lamarr 1914 2000 Frequency-hopping spread spectrum 2014
Edwin H. Land 1909 1991 Polaroid 1977
Alois Langer 1945 — Defibrillator 2002
Robert S. Langer 1948 — Drug delivery 2006
Irving Langmuir 1881 1957 Electric lighting 1989
L. L. Langstroth 1810 1895 Beehive 2007
Vincent Lanza 1922 1972 Polymer cable sheath 2010
Lewis Howard Latimer 1848 1928 Filament for electric light bulb 2006
Paul Lauterbur* 1929 2007 Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) 2007
Ernest Lawrence 1901 1958 Cyclotron 1982
Victor Lawrence 1945 — Signal processing in telecommunications 2016
Bill Lear 1902 1978 8-track system 1993
Joseph Lechleider 1933 2015 Digital subscriber line (DSL) 2013
Robert Ledley 1926 2012 Whole-body CAT scan 1990
Tom Leighton 1956 — Content delivery network 2017
Henry M. Leland 1843 1932 Interchangeable parts for automobiles 2011
Daniel Lewin 1970 2001 Content delivery network 2017
Ronald M. Lewis 1936 — Catalytic converter 2002
Frances Ligler 1951 — Portable optical air sensor 2017
Edwin Albert Link 1904 1981 Link Trainer 2003
Barbara Liskov 1939 — Programming Languages and System Design 2012
Oliver Lodge 1851 1940 Wireless telegraphy 2007
Alfred Loomis 1887 1975 Long range navigation system (LORAN) 2013
Auguste Lumière 1862 1954 Cinématographe 2007
Louis Lumière 1864 1948 Cinématographe 2007
John Lynott 1921 1994 Hard drive 2007
Paul B. MacCready 1925 2007 Gossamer Condor 2015
John MacDougall 1940 — Ion implantation 2009
Stanley Macomber 1887 1967 Open web joist 2011
Theodore Harold Maiman 1927 2007 Laser 1984
Ken Manchester 1925 2014 Ion implantation 2009
Leopold Mannes 1899 1964 Kodachrome 2005
Peter Mansfield 1933 2017 Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) 2007
Guglielmo Marconi* 1874 1937 Radio 1975
Warren Marrison 1896 1980 Quartz clock 2011
Homer Martin 1910 1993 Catalytic cracking 1999
John Landis Mason 1832 1902 Mason jar 2006
Jan Ernst Matzeliger 1852 1889 Shoe lasting 2006
John Mauchly 1907 1980 ENIAC 2002
Robert D. Maurer 1924 — Optical fiber 1993
Hiram Stevens Maxim 1840 1916 Machine gun 2006
Wilhelm Maybach 1846 1929 Carburetor and radiator 2007
Stanley Mazor 1941 — Central processing unit (CPU) 1996
Cyrus McCormick 1809 1884 Mechanical reaper 1976
Elijah McCoy 1844 1929 Engine lubricator 2001
Ray McIntire 1918 1996 Styrofoam 2008
Malcom McLean 1913 2001 Shipping containers 2008
Harold McMaster 1916 2003 Tempered glass 2008
Carver Mead 1934 — VLSI method for designing chips 2009
Ottmar Mergenthaler 1854 1899 Linotype 1982
Ralph Merkle 1952 — Public-key cryptography 2011
Robert Metcalfe* 1946 — Ethernet 2007
Gary K. Michelson 1949 — Spinal surgical devices 2011
Thomas Midgley, Jr. 1889 1944 Ethyl gasoline, fluorocarbon refrigerants 2003
Alexander Miles 1838 1918 Elevator doors 2007
Lewis Miller 1829 1899 Combine harvester 2006
Irving Millman 1923 2012 Vaccine for hepatitis B 1993
Michel Mirowski 1924 1990 Defibrillator 2002
Sumita Mitra 1949 — Nanocomposite dental materials 2018
Dennis L. Moeller 1950 — Computer peripherals 1997
Bryan Molloy 1939 2004 Prozac 1999
Luc Montagnier 1932 — HIV isolation and antibody test 2004
Robert Moog 1934 2005 Moog synthesizer 2013
Gordon Moore* 1929 — Semiconductor production 2009
Garrett A. Morgan 1887 1963 Gas mask 2005
Samuel Morse 1791 1872 Telegraph 1975
Morton Mower 1933 — Implantable heart defibrillator 2002
Andrew J. Moyer 1899 1959 Penicillin 1987
Louis Marius Moyroud 1914 2010 Photograph composition 1985
Kary Mullis 1944 — Polymerase chain reaction 1998
Eger V. Murphree 1898 1962 Catalytic cracking 1999
William P. Murphy Jr. 1923 — Blood bag and disposable medical trays 2008
Thomas E. Murray 1860 1929 Early power generation 2011
Eadweard Muybridge 1830 1904 Stop action photography 2011
Shuji Nakamura 1954 — Blue LED 2015
Walther Nernst 1864 1941 Metallic filament incandescent lamp 2011
Julius Nieuwland 1878 1936 Synthetic rubber 1996
Alfred Nobel 1833 1896 Dynamite 1998
Arthur Nobile 1920 2004 Prednisone 2007
John Knudsen Northrop 1895 1981 Flying wing plane 2003
Robert Noyce* 1927 1990 Integrated circuit 1983
Bernard M. Oliver 1916 1995 Pulse code modulation 2004
Ken Olsen 1926 2011 Magnetic core memory 1990
Miguel Ondetti 1930 2004 Captopril 2007
Elisha Otis 1811 1861 Elevator brake 1988
Nicolaus Otto 1832 1891 Otto cycle for internal combustion engine 1981
Stanford R. Ovshinsky 1922 2012 Nickel-metal hydride battery 2015
Michael Joseph Owens 1859 1923 Bottle making machine 2007
Charles Grafton Page 1812 1868 High-voltage induction coil 2006
William Painter 1838 1906 Bottle cap 2006
David Pall 1914 2004 Filtration technology 2008
Julio Palmaz 1945 — Intravascular stent 2006
Louis W. Parker 1906 1993 Television 1988
Bradford Parkinson 1935 — Global positioning system (GPS) 2004
John T. Parsons 1913 2007 Numerical control 1993
Louis Pasteur 1822 1895 Pasteurization 1978
C. Kumar N. Patel* 1938 — Carbon dioxide laser 2012
Les Paul 1915 2009 Solid-body electric guitar 2005
Arogyaswami Paulraj 1944 — MIMO wireless technology 2018
Gerald Pearson 1905 1987 Solar cell 2008
Lester Allan Pelton 1829 1908 Waterwheel 2006
Mary Engle Pennington 1872 1952 Food preservation and food storage 2018
Radia Perlman 1951 — Network routing and bridging 2016
Henry F. Phillips 1890 1958 Phillips screw 2011
Thomas R. Pickering 1831 1895 Velocipede 2007
John R. Pierce* 1910 2002 Communications satellite 2003
Gregory Goodwin Pincus 1903 1967 Oral contraceptives 2006
Charles J. Plank 1915 1989 Catalytic cracking 1979
Roy J. Plunkett 1910 1994 Teflon 1985
Valdemar Poulsen 1869 1942 Magnetic wire recorder 2011
George Pullman 1831 1897 Pullman car 2006
Mihajlo Pupin 1858 1935 Loading coil 2011
Jacqueline Quinn 1967 — EZVI (Emulsified Zerovalent iron) 2018
Jacob Rabinow 1910 1999 Optical character recognition 2005
Grote Reber 1911 2002 Radio telescope 2013
Louis Renault 1877 1944 Drum brake 2006
Jesse W. Reno 1861 1947 Escalator 2007
Kenneth Richardson 1939 — Fluconazole 2008
Norbert Rillieux 1806 1894 Refined sugar 2004
Robert H. Rines 1922 2009 High resolution radar and sonar 1994
James Ritty 1836 1918 Cash register 2011
John Ritty 1834 1913 Cash register 2011
Ronald Rivest 1947 — RSA cryptography 2018
John A. Roebling 1806 1869 Suspension bridge 2004
John Raphael Rogers 1856 1934 Automated typesetting 2007
Heinrich Rohrer 1933 2013 Scanning tunneling microscope 1994
Lubomyr Romankiw 1931 — Thin film magnetic heads 2012
Harold Rosen 1926 2017 Spin stabilized synchronous communications satellite 2003
Edward J. Rosinski 1921 2000 Catalytic cracking 1979
Benjamin Rubin 1917 2010 Vaccine needle 1992
Wallace Clement Sabine 1868 1919 Architectural acoustics 2011
Augustine Sackett 1841 1914 Drywall 2017
Aran Safir 1926 2007 Iris recognition algorithm 2013
Lewis Hastings Sarett 1917 1999 Cortisone 1980
Steven Sasson 1950 — Digital camera 2011
Joseph Saxton 1799 1873 Measuring instruments 2006
Arthur Leonard Schawlow 1921 1999 Laser 1996
Klaus Schmiegel 1939 — Prozac 1999
Peter C. Schultz 1942 — Optical fiber 1993
Glenn T. Seaborg 1912 1999 Plutonium isolation 2005
Charles Seeberger 1857 1931 Escalator 2007
Robert J. Seiwald 1925 — Isothiocyanates 1995
William Sellers 1824 1905 Improvement in machine tools 2007
Waldo Semon 1898 1999 Polyvinyl chloride 1995
Gerhard M. Sessler 1931 — Microphone 1999
Adi Shamir 1952 — RSA cryptography 2018
Claude Shannon* 1916 2001 Pulse code modulation 2004
Gary D. Sharp 1962 — Polarization-control technology 2015
John C. Sheehan 1915 1992 Structure and synthesis of penicillin 1995
Patsy O'Connell Sherman 1930 2008 Scotchgard 2001
Joseph Shivers 1920 2014 LYCRA fiber (Spandex) 2018
William Shockley 1910 1989 Transistor 1974
Christopher Latham Sholes 1819 1890 Typewriter 2001
Frederick Ellsworth Sickels 1819 1895 Valve for steam engine 2007
Igor Sikorsky 1889 1972 Helicopter 1987
John Silliker 1922 2015 Microbiological food safety and testing 2016
Bernard Silver 1924 1963 First optically scanned barcode 2011
Spencer Silver 1941 — Post-it notes 2010
Samuel Slater 1768 1835 Cotton mills 2007
Games Slayter 1896 1964 Fiberglass 2006
H. Gene Slottow 1921 1989 Plasma display 2013
George E. Smith 1930 — Charge-coupled device 2006
Samuel Smith 1927 2005 Scotchgard 2001
James M. Spangler 1848 1915 Portable electric vacuum cleaner 2006
William Sparks 1905 1976 Butyl rubber 2016
Percy Spencer 1894 1970 Magnetron 1999
Elmer Ambrose Sperry 1860 1930 Gyroscopic compass 1991
Frank J. Sprague 1857 1934 Electric street car 2006
Rangaswamy Srinivasan 1929 — LASIK eye surgery 2002
William Stanley, Jr. 1858 1916 Alternating current 1995
Gary Starkweather 1938 — Laser printer 2012
Charles Steinmetz 1865 1923 Alternating current 1977
Leo Sternbach 1908 2005 Benzodiazepines 2005
John Stevens 1749 1838 Steam-powered transportation 2006
Louis Stevens 1925 2009 Magnetic disk storage 2008
George Stibitz 1904 1995 Digital computer 1983
S. Donald Stookey 1915 2014 Glass ceramics 2010
Harriet Strong 1844 1926 Water storage and flood control 2016
Herbert M. Strong 1908 2002 Synthetic diamond 2010
Almon Brown Strowger 1839 1902 Telephone dial 2006
Eugene Sullivan 1872 1962 Borosilicate glass 2011
Gideon Sundback 1880 1954 Zipper 2006
Ivan Sutherland 1938 — Display windowing by clipping 2016
Ambrose Swasey 1846 1937 Improvements to telescope 2006
Leó Szilárd 1898 1964 Neutronic atomic reactor 1996
Donalee L. Tabern 1900 1974 Pentothal 1986
Charles Sumner Tainter 1854 1940 Innovations in sound recording 2006
Esther Sans Takeuchi 1953 — Lithium/silver-vanadium oxide battery 2011
Ching W. Tang 1947 — Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) 2018
Welton Taylor 1919 2012 Microbiological food safety and testing 2016
Gordon Kidd Teal* 1907 2003 Method of producing a semiconductor element 2009
Mária Telkes* 1900 1995 Solar thermal storage system 2012
Paul Terasaki 1929 2016 Tissue typing for organ transplants, Terasaki tray 2018
Eli Terry 1772 1852 Innovations in clockmaking 2007
Nikola Tesla 1856 1943 Induction motor 1975
John H. Thomas 1907 1991 Fiberglass 2006
Robert M. Thomas 1908 1984 Butyl rubber 2016
David A. Thompson 1940 — Thin film magnetic heads 2012
Elihu Thomson 1853 1937 Arc lamp 2006
Louis Comfort Tiffany 1848 1933 Stained glass 2007
Henry Timken 1831 1909 Tapered roller ball bearings 1998
Max Tishler 1906 1989 Synthetic vitamins 1982
Charles Hard Townes* 1915 2015 Laser 1976
Charlie Tyson 1905 1977 Catalytic cracking 1999
William E. Upjohn 1853 1932 Tablet for delivering medicine 2006
Theophilus Van Kannel 1841 1919 Revolving door 2007
Steven Van Slyke 1956 — Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) 2018
Andrew Viterbi 1935 — Spread spectrum multiple access communication system 2013
Ernest H. Volwiler 1893 1992 Pentothal 1986
Theodore von Kármán 1881 1963 Turbojet 2003
Hans von Ohain 1911 1998 Jet engine 2003
Carl Auer von Welsbach 1858 1929 Improvements to gas lighting 2011
Selman Waksman 1888 1973 Streptomycin 2005
An Wang 1920 1990 Magnetic core memory 1988
Frank Wanlass 1933 2010 Low stand-by power complementary field effect circuitry 2009
Lewis Waterman 1837 1901 Fountain pen 2006
Thomas A. Watson 1854 1934 Improvements to telephone 2011
Robert H. Wentorf, Jr. 1926 1997 Synthetic diamond 2010
James Edward Maceo West 1931 — Microphone 1999
George Westinghouse 1846 1914 Alternating current 1989
Edward Weston 1850 1936 Portable voltmeter 2006
Squire Whipple 1804 1888 Iron truss bridge 2007
Richard T. Whitcomb 1921 2009 Supercritical wing 2003
Rollin H. White 1872 1962 Flash boiler for generating steam-controlled differential steering 2011
Willis Whitfield 1919 2012 Clean room 2014
Eli Whitney 1765 1825 Cotton gin 1974
Frank Whittle 1907 1996 Jet engine 2003
Otto Wichterle 1913 1998 Soft contact lens 2007
Bob Widlar 1937 1991 Biasing scheme especially suited for integrated circuits 2009
Stephen Wilcox 1830 1893 Steam generator 1997
Robert R. Williams 1886 1965 Vitamin synthesis 1991
Sam B. Williams 1921 2009 Contributions to jet engine 2003
Robert Willson 1936 — Plasma display 2013
Field H. Winslow 1916 2009 Polymer cable sheath 2010
Alexander Winton 1860 1932 Contributions to automobile, bicycle, and diesel engine 2006
Norman Joseph Woodland 1921 2012 First optically scanned barcode 2011
Granville Woods 1856 1910 Railroad telegraph 2006
Steve Wozniak 1950 — Personal computer 2000
Orville Wright 1871 1948 Airplane 1975
Wilbur Wright 1867 1912 Airplane 1975
James J. Wynne 1943 — LASIK eye surgery 2002
Linus Yale, Jr. 1821 1868 Cylinder lock 2006
Ioannis Yannas 1935 — Artificial skin 2015
Alejandro Zaffaroni 1923 2014 Drug delivery systems 2012
Frank Zamboni 1901 1988 Ice resurfacer 2007
Ferdinand von Zeppelin 1838 1917 Rigid airship 2006
Vladimir K. Zworykin* 1888 1982 Cathode-ray tube 1977

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