List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees
Inductees

List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees

Section Title: Inductees
Table Section Text: None

Inductee	Birth	Death	Notable	Year	NIHF

Edward Goodrich Acheson	1856	1931	Carborundum	1997	[1]

Leonard Adleman	1945	—	RSA crytography	2018	[2]

Robert Adler	1913	2007	Television remote control	2008	[3]

Herman Affel	1893	1972	Coaxial cable	2006	[4]

Howard Aiken	1900	1973	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	2014	[5]

JD Albert	1975	—	Electronic ink	2016	[6]

George Edward Alcorn, Jr.	1940	—	X-ray spectrometer	2015	[7]

Samuel W. Alderson	1914	2005	Crash test dummy	2013	[8]

Ernst Alexanderson*	1878	1975	Radio	1983	[9]

Andrew Alford	1904	1992	VHF omnidirectional range	1983	[10]

Samuel Leeds Allen	1841	1918	Flexible flyer sled	2007	[11]

Luis Walter Alvarez	1911	1988	Radio distance and direction indicator; Hydrogen bubble chamber	1978	[12]

Iver Anderson	1953	—	Lead-free solder	2017	[13]

Mary Anderson	1866	1953	Windshield wiper	2011	[14]

Roger Angel	1941	—	Telescope mirror cell	2016	[15]

George Antheil	1900	1959	Frequency-hopping spread spectrum	2014	[16]

Thomas Armat	1866	1948	Movie projector	2011	[17]

Don Arney	1947	—	Bambi bucket for aerial firefighting	2017	[18]

Edwin Howard Armstrong*	1890	1954	FM radio	1980	[19]

Frances Arnold	1956	—	Evolution of enzymes	2014	[20]

Chieko Asakawa	1958	—	Home Page Reader	2019	[21]

Arthur Ashkin	1922	—	Optical trapping	2013	[22]

Martin Atalla	1924	2009	MOSFET	2009	[23]

Alpheus Babcock	1785	1842	Cast iron piano frame	2007	[24]

George Herman Babcock	1832	1893	Steam generator	1997	[25]

Roger Bacon	1926	2007	Carbon fibers	2016	[26]

Leo Baekeland	1863	1944	Bakelite	1978	[27]

John Baer	1917	2003	Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide)	2019	[28]

Ralph Baer	1922	2014	Television gaming and training apparatus	2010	[29]

Rodney Bagley	1934	—	Substrate for catalytic converters	2002	[30]

Matthias W. Baldwin	1795	1866	Steam locomotive	2005	[31]

B. Jayant Baliga	1948	—	Insulated-gate bipolar transistor	2016	[32]

Robert Banks	1921	1989	Polypropylene plastics	2001	[33]

Frederick Banting	1891	1941	Isolated and purified insulin	2004	[34]

Paul Baran	1926	2011	Digital packet switching	2007	[35]

John Bardeen*	1908	1991	Transistor	1974	[36]

C. Donald Bateman	1932	—	Ground proximity warning system	2005	[37]

Andrew Jackson Beard	1849	1921	Improved Janney coupler for railroad cars	2006	[38]

Arnold Orville Beckman	1900	2004	pH meter	1987	[39]

Semi Joseph Begun	1905	1995	Magnetic recording	1998	[40]

Alexander Graham Bell	1847	1922	Telephone	1974	[41]

Ruth R. Benerito	1916	2013	Wrinkle-free cotton	2008	[42]

Willard Harrison Bennett	1903	1987	Mass spectrometry	1991	[43]

Emile Berliner	1851	1929	Gramophone and microphone	1994	[44]

Carolyn Bertozzi	1966	—	Bioorthogonal Chemistry	2017	[45]

Henry Bessemer	1813	1898	Bessemer process for steel production	2002	[46]

Charles Herbert Best	1899	1978	Isolation of insulin	2004	[47]

Karl H. Beyer Jr.	1914	1996	Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide)	2019	[48]

Erastus Brigham Bigelow	1814	1879	Powered loom	2006	[49]

Edwin Binney	1866	1934	Carbon black manufacturing	2011	[50]

Gerd Binnig	1947	—	Scanning tunneling microscope	1994	[51]

Forrest Bird	1921	2015	Respirator / Ventilator	1995	[52]

John Birden	1918	2011	Radioisotope thermoelectric generator	2013	[53]

Clarence Birdseye	1886	1956	Frozen food	2005	[54]

László Bíró	1899	1985	Ballpoint pen	2007	[55]

Donald Bitzer	1934	—	Plasma display	2013	[56]

Harold Stephen Black	1898	1983	Feedback amplifier	1981	[57]

S. Duncan Black	1883	1951	Portable hand-held electric drill	2019	[58]

Eli Whitney Blake	1795	1886	Machine for crushing stone	2007	[59]

Helen Blanchard	1840	1922	Innovations to sewing machine	2006	[60]

Thomas Blanchard	1788	1864	Pattern lathe	2006	[61]

Katharine Burr Blodgett	1898	1979	Langmuir-Blodgett film	2007	[62]

Samuel E. Blum	1920	2013	LASIK eye surgery	2002	[63]

Baruch Samuel Blumberg	1925	2011	Vaccine for hepatitis B	1993	[64]

James Bogardus	1800	1874	Iron frame building	2007	[65]

Nils Bohlin	1920	2002	Safety belt	2002	[66]

Gail Borden	1801	1874	Process for condensed milk	2006	[67]

Carl Bosch	1874	1940	Haber-Bosch process for ammonia production	2006	[68]

Amar Bose	1929	2013	Audio feedback control	2008	[69]

Robert W. Bower	1936	—	MOSFET	1997	[70]

Bill Bowerman	1911	1999	Modern athletic shoe	2014	[71]

Seth Boyden	1788	1870	Process for making malleable iron	2006	[72]

Herbert Boyer	1936	—	Genetic engineering	2001	[73]

Otis Boykin	1920	1982	Electrical resistor	2014	[74]

Willard Boyle	1924	2011	Charge coupled device	2006	[75]

Milton Bradley	1836	1911	Game board	2006	[76]

Jacques E. Brandenberger	1872	1954	Cellophane	2006	[77]

Per-Ingvar Brånemark	1929	2014	Dental implant	2016	[78]

Charles F. Brannock	1903	1992	Brannock device for foot measuring	1992	[79]

Walter Houser Brattain	1902	1987	Transistor	1974	[80]

Yvonne Brill	1924	2013	Dual thrust level monopropellant spacecraft propulsion system	2010	[81]

Garrett Brown	1942	—	Steadicam Camera stabilizer	2013	[82]

Rachel Fuller Brown	1898	1980	Nystatin antifungal	1994	[83]

John Browning	1855	1926	Breech-loading rifle	2007	[84]

Charles F. Brush	1849	1929	Arc light for street lighting	2006	[85]

Francis R. Bundy	1910	2008	Diamond synthesis	2010	[86]

Luther Burbank	1849	1926	Plant breeding	1986	[87]

Joseph H. Burckhalter	1912	2004	Isothiocyanates	1995	[88]

John F. Burke	1922	2011	Artificial skin	2015	[89]

William Seward Burroughs I	1857	1898	Adding machine	1987	[90]

William Merriam Burton	1865	1954	Catalytic cracking	1984	[91]

Vannevar Bush	1890	1974	Differential analyzer	2004	[92]

Edward A. Calahan	1838	1912	Stock ticker	2006	[93]

Donald L. Campbell	1904	2002	Catalytic cracking	1999	[94]

George Ashley Campbell	1870	1954	Loading coil	2011	[95]

Marvin Camras	1916	1995	Magnetic recording	1985	[96]

Chester Carlson	1906	1968	Xerographic printing	1981	[97]

Wallace Carothers	1896	1937	Synthetic rubber, nylon	1984	[98]

Willis Carrier	1876	1950	Air conditioner	1985	[99]

George Robert Carruthers	1939	—	Ultraviolet camera	2003	[100]

Marvin Caruthers	1940	—	Chemical synthesis of DNA	2018	[101]

George Washington Carver	1864	1943	Peanut products	1990	[102]

Frank Cepollina	1936	—	Satellite servicing techniques	2003	[103]

Vint Cerf	1943	—	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)	2006	[104]

Daryl Chapin	1906	1995	Solar cell	2008	[105]

Emmett Chappelle	1925	—	Bioluminescence	2007	[106]

John Charnley	1911	1982	Hip replacement surgery	2008	[107]

Mary-Dell Chilton	1939	—	Transgenic plant	2015	[108]

Alfred Y. Cho*	1937	—	Molecular beam epitaxy	2009	[109]

Edith Clarke	1883	1959	Graphical calculator	2015	[110]

Georges Claude	1870	1960	Neon light	2007	[111]

Josephine Cochrane	1839	1913	Dishwasher	2006	[112]

Stanley Norman Cohen	1935	—	Genetic engineering	2001	[113]

James Collip	1892	1965	Isolated and purified insulin	2004	[114]

Samuel Colt	1814	1862	Colt revolver with interchangeable parts	2006	[115]

Frank B. Colton	1923	2003	Oral contraceptives	1988	[116]

Barrett Comiskey	1975	—	Electronic ink	2016	[117]

Lloyd Conover	1923	2017	Tetracycline	1992	[118]

William D. Coolidge	1873	1975	X-ray tube	1975	[119]

Peter Cooper	1791	1883	Steam locomotive	2006	[120]

Harry Coover	1917	2011	Superglue	2004	[121]

George Henry Corliss	1817	1888	Improvements to steam engine	2006	[122]

Martha Coston	1826	1904	Signal flare used for ships	2006	[123]

Frederick Gardner Cottrell	1877	1948	Electrostatic precipitator	1992	[124]

Wallace H. Coulter	1913	1998	Coulter principle	2004	[125]

Jacques Cousteau	1910	1997	Diving unit	2010	[126]

Joshua Lionel Cowen	1877	1965	Model train	2007	[127]

Eckley Coxe	1839	1895	Traveling grate furnace	2006	[128]

Seymour Cray	1925	1996	Supercomputer	1997	[129]

George Crompton	1829	1886	Loom	2007	[130]

David Crosthwait	1898	1976	Heating and ventilation system	2014	[131]

Glenn Curtiss	1878	1930	Hydroplane	2003	[132]

David Cushman	1939	2000	Captopril	2007	[133]

Gottlieb Daimler	1834	1900	Design of automobile and motorcycle engines	2006	[134]

Raymond Vahan Damadian	1936	—	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)	1989	[135]

John Daugman	1954	—	Iris recognition algorithm	2013	[136]

Donald Davies	1924	2000	Digital packet switching	2007	[137]

Lee De Forest*	1873	1961	Audion amplifier tube	1977	[138]

George de Mestral	1907	1990	Velcro	1999	[139]

Mark Dean	1957	—	Computer peripherals	1997	[140]

Alonzo G. Decker	1884	1956	Portable hand-held electric drill	2019	[141]

John Deere	1804	1886	Farm plow	1989	[142]

Robert H. Dennard*	1932	—	Dynamic random access memory (DRAM)	1997	[143]

George Devol	1912	2011	Industrial robot	2011	[144]

Albert Dick	1856	1934	Duplicating machine	2011	[145]

Earle Dickson	1892	1961	Band-Aid	2017	[146]

Rudolf Diesel	1858	1913	Internal-combustion engine	1976	[147]

Whitfield Diffie	1944	—	Public-key cryptography	2011	[148]

Richard DiMarchi	1952	—	Insulin Lispro	2014	[149]

Walt Disney	1901	1966	Multiplane camera	2000	[150]

Carl Djerassi	1923	2015	Oral contraceptives	1978	[151]

Ray Dolby	1933	2013	Dolby noise reduction	2004	[152]

Marion Donovan	1917	1998	Waterproof diaper cover	2015	[153]

Herbert Henry Dow	1866	1930	Bromine extraction	1983	[154]

Charles Stark Draper	1901	1987	Stabilizing gyroscopic	1981	[155]

Mildred Dresselhaus	1930	2017	Lattice structure	2014	[156]

Charles R. Drew	1904	1950	Surgical needle	2015	[157]

Richard Gurley Drew	1899	1980	Adhesive tape	2007	[158]

Philip Drinker	1894	1972	Iron lung	2007	[159]

John Boyd Dunlop	1840	1921	Pneumatic tire	2006	[160]

Graham J. Durant	1934	2009	Cimetidine	1990	[161]

Benjamin Durfee	1897	1980	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	2014	[162]

George Eastman	1854	1932	Photography	1977	[163]

Roger L. Easton	1921	2014	TIMATION satellite navigation system	2010	[164]

J. Presper Eckert	1919	1995	ENIAC	2002	[165]

Harold Eugene Edgerton	1903	1990	Stroboscope photography	1986	[166]

Thomas Edison	1847	1931	Electric lighting, motion pictures, phonograph	1973	[167]

Alfred Einhorn	1856	1917	Novocain	2007	[168]

Willem Einthoven	1860	1927	Electrocardiograph	2008	[169]

Gertrude B. Elion	1918	1999	Leukemia drug	1991	[170]

Carleton Ellis	1876	1941	Margarine	2011	[171]

John Colin Emmett	1939	—	Cimetidine	1990	[172]

Akira Endo	1933	—	Mevastatin	2012	[173]

Douglas Engelbart	1925	2013	Computer mouse	1998	[174]

John Ericsson	1803	1889	Screw propeller	1993	[175]

Lloyd Espenschied*	1889	1986	Coaxial cable	2006	[176]

Oliver Evans	1755	1819	High pressure steam engine	2001	[177]

Ole Evinrude	1877	1934	Outboard motor	2007	[178]

Maxime Faget	1921	2004	Space capsule	2003	[179]

Federico Faggin	1941	—	Microprocessor	1996	[180]

Moses G. Farmer	1820	1893	Electric fire alarm system	2006	[181]

Philo Farnsworth	1906	1971	Television	1984	[182]

James Fergason	1934	2008	Liquid crystal display	1998	[183]

Enrico Fermi	1901	1954	Nuclear fission	1976	[184]

Reginald Fessenden*	1866	1932	AM radio	2000	[185]

Harvey Samuel Firestone	1868	1938	Pneumatic tire	2006	[186]

John Fitch	1743	1798	Steamboat	2006	[187]

Edith M. Flanigen	1929	—	Molecular sieves	2004	[188]

Leonard Flom	1927	—	Iris recognition algorithm	2013	[189]

Thomas J. Fogarty	1934	—	Embolectomy catheter	2001	[190]

Judah Folkman	1933	2008	Angiogenesis inhibition	2010	[191]

Henry Ford	1863	1947	Automobile	1982	[192]

Jay Wright Forrester*	1918	2016	Random access memory (RAM)	1979	[193]

Eric Fossum	1957	—	CMOS active pixel image sensor camera-on-a-chip	2011	[194]

John E. Franz	1929	—	Roundup	2007	[195]

Alfred Free	1913	2000	Glucose detection for diabetes	2000	[196]

Helen Murray Free	1923	—	Glucose detection for diabetes	2000	[197]

Ross Freeman	1948	1989	Configurable electrical circuit having configurable logic elements and configurable interconnects	2009	[198]

Harold E. Froehlich	1922	2007	Deep-sea submersible	2017	[199]

Dov Frohman	1939	—	Erasable programmable read only memory array (EPROM)	2009	[200]

Arthur Fry	1931	—	Post-it notes	2010	[201]

Calvin Souther Fuller	1902	1994	Solar Cell	2008	[202]

Robert Fulton	1765	1815	Steamboat	2006	[203]

Dennis Gabor*	1900	1979	Electron holography	2012	[204]

Ashok Gadgil	1950	—	Water disinfection	2014	[205]

Émile Gagnan	1900	1979	Aqua-lung diving equipment	2010	[206]

Robert Gallo	1937	—	HIV isolation	2004	[207]

Haren S. Gandhi	1941	2010	Automotive exhaust catalyst	2017	[208]

C. Robin Ganellin	1934	—	Cimetidine	1990	[209]

Edmund Germer	1901	1987	Fluorescent lighting	1996	[210]

Ivan A. Getting	1912	2003	Global Positioning System (GPS)	2004	[211]

John Heysham Gibbon	1903	1973	Heart-lung machine	2004	[212]

King C. Gillette	1855	1932	Safety razor	2007	[213]

Charles Ginsburg	1920	1992	Video tape recording	1990	[214]

Joseph Glidden	1813	1906	Barbed wire	2006	[215]

Robert H. Goddard	1882	1945	Solid fuel rockets	1979	[216]

William Goddard	1913	1997	Hard drive and floppy disk	2007	[217]

Leopold Godowsky, Jr.	1900	1983	Kodachrome	2005	[218]

Peter Carl Goldmark	1906	1977	Long playing record	2007	[219]

Hannibal Goodwin	1822	1900	Transparent flexible nitrocellulose	2011	[220]

Charles Goodyear	1800	1860	Vulcanization of rubber	1976	[221]

Robert W. Gore	1937	—	Gore-Tex	2006	[222]

Gordon Gould	1920	2005	Laser	1991	[223]

Zénobe Gramme	1826	1901	Direct-current dynamo	2006	[224]

Elisha Gray	1835	1901	Telephone and telegraph improvements	2007	[225]

Wilson Greatbatch	1919	2011	Heart pacemaker	1986	[226]

Leonard Greene	1918	2006	Aircraft stall warning	1991	[227]

Leroy Grumman	1895	1982	Retractable landing gear	2003	[228]

Robert Gundlach	1926	2010	Photocopier	2005	[229]

Jaap Haartsen	1963	—	Bluetooth wireless technology	2015	[230]

Fritz Haber	1868	1934	Ammonia production process	2006	[231]

Charles Martin Hall	1863	1914	Aluminum production process	1976	[232]

Lloyd Hall	1894	1971	Food preservation	2004	[233]

Robert N. Hall	1919	2016	Magnetron	1994	[234]

Thomas Seavey Hall	1827	1880	Railroad signal	2007	[235]

Tracy Hall	1919	2008	Synthetic diamond	2010	[236]

Andrew Smith Hallidie	1836	1900	Cable car	2006	[237]

Francis E. Hamilton	1898	1972	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	2014	[238]

John Hays Hammond, Jr.	1888	1965	Radio control	2011	[239]

William Edward Hanford	1908	1996	Polyurethane	1991	[240]

Eli Harari	1945	—	Floating-gate EEPROM	2017	[241]

Walter Lincoln Hawkins	1911	1992	Polymer cable sheath	2010	[242]

Elizabeth Lee Hazen	1885	1975	Nystatin	1994	[243]

Howard Head	1914	1991	Laminated ski; oversized tennis racket	2017	[244]

M. Stephen Heilman	1933	—	Defibrillator	2002	[245]

George H. Heilmeier*	1936	2014	Electro-optic liquid crystal device	2009	[246]

Martin Hellman	1945	—	Public-key cryptography	2011	[247]

François Hennebique	1842	1921	Reinforced concrete construction	2011	[248]

Beulah Louise Henry	1887	1973	Ice cream freezer	2006	[249]

Peter Cooper Hewitt	1861	1921	Mercury-vapor lamp	2011	[250]

William Redington Hewlett	1913	2001	Audio signals	1992	[251]

Beatrice Hicks	1919	1979	Device for sensing gas density	2017	[252]

Andrew Higgins	1886	1952	Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP)	2019	[253]

Rene Alphonse Higonnet	1902	1983	Phototypesetting machine	1985	[254]

Maurice Hilleman	1919	2005	Vaccines	2007	[255]

James Hillier	1915	2007	Electron microscope	1980	[256]

Richard March Hoe	1812	1886	Rotary printing press	2006	[257]

Jean Hoerni	1924	1997	Planar manufacturing process	2009	[258]

Marcian Hoff	1937	—	Microprocessor	1996	[259]

Felix Hoffmann	1868	1946	Aspirin	2002	[260]

J. Paul Hogan	1919	2012	Polypropylene and HDPE	2001	[261]

John Philip Holland	1841	1914	Submarine	2007	[262]

Herman Hollerith	1860	1929	Recording data on a machine readable medium, punched card, tabulator	1990	[263]

Alexander Lyman Holley	1832	1882	Steelmaking	2006	[264]

Birdsill Holly	1820	1894	Fire hydrant	2006	[265]

Donald Holmes	1910	1980	Polyurethane	1991	[266]

Nick Holonyak*	1928	—	visible light emitting diode	2008	[267]

Benjamin Holt	1849	1920	Tractor	2006	[268]

Stan Honey	1955	—	Sports broadcast graphic enhancements	2018	[269]

Leroy Hood	1938	—	DNA sequencer	2007	[270]

Erna Schneider Hoover	1926	—	Computerized telephone switching	2008	[271]

Larry J. Hornbeck	1943	—	Spatial light modulator and method	2009	[272]

Eugene Houdry	1892	1962	Catalytic cracking	1990	[273]

Godfrey Hounsfield	1919	2004	CAT scanner	2007	[274]

Elias Howe	1819	1867	Sewing machine	2004	[275]

George Hulett	1846	1923	Loading and unloading machine	2006	[276]

Chuck Hull	1939	—	Stereolithography	2014	[277]

Walter Hunt	1796	1859	Safety pin	2006	[278]

John Wesley Hyatt	1837	1920	Celluloid	2006	[279]

James Franklin Hyde	1903	1999	Transparent silica	2000	[280]

Simon Ingersoll	1818	1894	Steam powered rock drill	2006	[281]

Frederic Eugene Ives	1856	1937	Color photography	2011	[282]

Irwin M. Jacobs	1933	—	Spread spectrum multiple access communication system	2013	[283]

Joseph Jacobson	1965	—	Electronic ink	2016	[284]

Ali Javan	1926	2016	Helium-neon laser	2006	[285]

Allene Jeanes	1906	1995	Dextran production; xanthan gum	2017	[286]

Alec Jeffreys	1950	—	Genetic fingerprinting	2005	[287]

Charles Francis Jenkins	1867	1934	Movie projector	2011	[288]

Thomas Jennings	1791	1859	Dry scouring	2015	[289]

Steve Jobs	1955	2011	Personal computer, mobile phone, animated movie, digital publishing	2012	[290]

Amos E. Joel, Jr.*	1918	2008	Switching concept for cellular phones	2008	[291]

Clarence Johnson	1910	1990	Aircraft	2008	[292]

Kristina M. Johnson	1957	—	Polarization-control technology	2015	[293]

Warren S. Johnson	1847	1911	Temperature control	2018	[294]

Frederick McKinley Jones	1893	1961	Refrigeration	2007	[295]

Howard S. Jones, Jr.	1921	2005	Conformal antenna	2018	[296]

Marshall Jones	1941	—	Industrial laser	2017	[297]

Kenneth Jordan	1921	2008	Radioisotope thermoelectric generator	2013	[298]

Percy Lavon Julian	1899	1975	Cortisone synthesis	1990	[299]

Bob Kahn	1938	—	Internet Protocol (IP)	2006	[300]

Dawon Kahng	1931	1992	Electric field controlled semiconductor device	2009	[301]

Charles Kaman	1919	2011	Innovations to helicopter	2003	[302]

Dean Kamen	1951	—	Ambulatory infusion pump	2005	[303]

Sheldon Kaplan	1939	2009	Auto-injector	2016	[304]

Donald Keck	1941	—	Optical fiber	1993	[305]

John Harvey Kellogg	1852	1943	Breakfast cereal	2006	[306]

Charles Kelman	1930	2004	Cataract surgery	2004	[307]

Clarence Kemp	c. 1860	1911	Solar water heater	2011	[308]

Charles F. Kettering	1876	1958	Electric ignition	1980	[309]

Mary Dixon Kies	1752	1837	Process for weaving straw	2006	[310]

Jack Kilby*	1923	2005	Integrated circuit	1982	[311]

Albert Kingsbury	1863	1943	Thrust bearing	2007	[312]

Dale Kleist	1909	1998	Fiberglass	2006	[313]

Margaret E. Knight	1838	1914	Paper bag machine	2006	[314]

Jeff Kodosky	1949	—	LabVIEW	2019	[315]

Willem Johan Kolff	1911	2009	Artificial heart	1985	[316]

Paul Kollsman	1900	1982	Altimeter	2003	[317]

William Justin Kroll	1889	1973	Titanium	2000	[318]

Raymond Kurzweil	1948	—	Optical character recognition	2002	[319]

Stephanie Kwolek	1923	2014	Kevlar	1995	[320]

Irwin Lachman	1930	—	Catalytic converter	2002	[321]

Clair Lake	1888	1958	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	2014	[322]

Hedy Lamarr	1914	2000	Frequency-hopping spread spectrum	2014	[323]

Edwin H. Land	1909	1991	Polaroid	1977	[324]

Alois Langer	1945	—	Defibrillator	2002	[325]

Robert S. Langer	1948	—	Drug delivery	2006	[326]

Irving Langmuir	1881	1957	Electric lighting	1989	[327]

L. L. Langstroth	1810	1895	Beehive	2007	[328]

Vincent Lanza	1922	1972	Polymer cable sheath	2010	[329]

Lewis Howard Latimer	1848	1928	Filament for electric light bulb	2006	[330]

Paul Lauterbur*	1929	2007	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)	2007	[331]

Ernest Lawrence	1901	1958	Cyclotron	1982	[332]

Victor Lawrence	1945	—	Signal processing in telecommunications	2016	[333]

Bill Lear	1902	1978	8-track system	1993	[334]

Joseph Lechleider	1933	2015	Digital subscriber line (DSL)	2013	[335]

Robert Ledley	1926	2012	Whole-body CAT scan	1990	[336]

Joseph Lee	1849	1908	Bread machine	2019	[337]

Tom Leighton	1956	—	Content delivery network	2017	[338]

Henry M. Leland	1843	1932	Interchangeable parts for automobiles	2011	[339]

Daniel Lewin	1970	2001	Content delivery network	2017	[340]

Ronald M. Lewis	1936	—	Catalytic converter	2002	[341]

Frances Ligler	1951	—	Portable optical air sensor	2017	[342]

Edwin Albert Link	1904	1981	Link Trainer	2003	[343]

Barbara Liskov	1939	—	Programming Languages and System Design	2012	[344]

Oliver Lodge	1851	1940	Wireless telegraphy	2007	[345]

Alfred Loomis	1887	1975	Long range navigation system (LORAN)	2013	[346]

Auguste Lumière	1862	1954	Cinématographe	2007	[347]

Louis Lumière	1864	1948	Cinématographe	2007	[348]

John Lynott	1921	1994	Hard drive	2007	[349]

Paul B. MacCready	1925	2007	Gossamer Condor	2015	[350]

John MacDougall	1940	—	Ion implantation	2009	[351]

Stanley Macomber	1887	1967	Open web joist	2011	[352]

Theodore Harold Maiman	1927	2007	Laser	1984	[353]

Ken Manchester	1925	2014	Ion implantation	2009	[354]

Leopold Mannes	1899	1964	Kodachrome	2005	[355]

Peter Mansfield	1933	2017	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)	2007	[356]

Guglielmo Marconi*	1874	1937	Radio	1975	[357]

Warren Marrison	1896	1980	Quartz clock	2011	[358]

Homer Martin	1910	1993	Catalytic cracking	1999	[359]

John Landis Mason	1832	1902	Mason jar	2006	[360]

Jan Ernst Matzeliger	1852	1889	Shoe lasting	2006	[361]

John Mauchly	1907	1980	ENIAC	2002	[362]

Robert D. Maurer	1924	—	Optical fiber	1993	[363]

Hiram Stevens Maxim	1840	1916	Machine gun	2006	[364]

Wilhelm Maybach	1846	1929	Carburetor and radiator	2007	[365]

Stanley Mazor	1941	—	Central processing unit (CPU)	1996	[366]

Cyrus McCormick	1809	1884	Mechanical reaper	1976	[367]

Elijah McCoy	1844	1929	Engine lubricator	2001	[368]

Ray McIntire	1918	1996	Styrofoam	2008	[369]

Malcom McLean	1913	2001	Shipping containers	2008	[370]

Harold McMaster	1916	2003	Tempered glass	2008	[371]

Carver Mead	1934	—	VLSI method for designing chips	2009	[372]

Ottmar Mergenthaler	1854	1899	Linotype	1982	[373]

Ralph Merkle	1952	—	Public-key cryptography	2011	[374]

Robert Metcalfe*	1946	—	Ethernet	2007	[375]

Gary K. Michelson	1949	—	Spinal surgical devices	2011	[376]

Thomas Midgley, Jr.	1889	1944	Ethyl gasoline, fluorocarbon refrigerants	2003	[377]

Alexander Miles	1838	1918	Elevator doors	2007	[378]

Lewis Miller	1829	1899	Combine harvester	2006	[379]

Irving Millman	1923	2012	Vaccine for hepatitis B	1993	[380]

Michel Mirowski	1924	1990	Defibrillator	2002	[381]

Sumita Mitra	1949	—	Nanocomposite dental materials	2018	[382]

Dennis L. Moeller	1950	—	Computer peripherals	1997	[383]

Bryan Molloy	1939	2004	Prozac	1999	[384]

Luc Montagnier	1932	—	HIV isolation and antibody test	2004	[385]

Robert Moog	1934	2005	Moog synthesizer	2013	[386]

Gordon Moore*	1929	—	Semiconductor production	2009	[387]

Garrett A. Morgan	1887	1963	Gas mask	2005	[388]

Samuel Morse	1791	1872	Telegraph	1975	[389]

Morton Mower	1933	—	Implantable heart defibrillator	2002	[390]

Andrew J. Moyer	1899	1959	Penicillin	1987	[391]

Louis Marius Moyroud	1914	2010	Photograph composition	1985	[392]

Joseph Muhler	1923	1996	Stannous fluoride toothpaste	2019	[393]

Kary Mullis	1944	—	Polymerase chain reaction	1998	[394]

Eger V. Murphree	1898	1962	Catalytic cracking	1999	[395]

William P. Murphy Jr.	1923	—	Blood bag and disposable medical trays	2008	[396]

Thomas E. Murray	1860	1929	Early power generation	2011	[397]

Eadweard Muybridge	1830	1904	Stop action photography	2011	[398]

Shuji Nakamura	1954	—	Blue LED	2015	[399]

William Nebergall	1914	1978	Stannous fluoride toothpaste	2019	[400]

Walther Nernst	1864	1941	Metallic filament incandescent lamp	2011	[401]

Julius Nieuwland	1878	1936	Synthetic rubber	1996	[402]

Alfred Nobel	1833	1896	Dynamite	1998	[403]

Arthur Nobile	1920	2004	Prednisone	2007	[404]

John Knudsen Northrop	1895	1981	Flying wing plane	2003	[405]

Frederick Novello	1916	1986	Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide)	2019	[406]

Robert Noyce*	1927	1990	Integrated circuit	1983	[407]

Bernard M. Oliver	1916	1995	Pulse code modulation	2004	[408]

Ken Olsen	1926	2011	Magnetic core memory	1990	[409]

Miguel Ondetti	1930	2004	Captopril	2007	[410]

Elisha Otis	1811	1861	Elevator brake	1988	[411]

Nicolaus Otto	1832	1891	Otto cycle for internal combustion engine	1981	[412]

Stanford R. Ovshinsky	1922	2012	Nickel-metal hydride battery	2015	[413]

Michael Joseph Owens	1859	1923	Bottle making machine	2007	[414]

Charles Grafton Page	1812	1868	High-voltage induction coil	2006	[415]

William Painter	1838	1906	Bottle cap	2006	[416]

David Pall	1914	2004	Filtration technology	2008	[417]

Julio Palmaz	1945	—	Intravascular stent	2006	[418]

Louis W. Parker	1906	1993	Television	1988	[419]

Bradford Parkinson	1935	—	Global positioning system (GPS)	2004	[420]

John T. Parsons	1913	2007	Numerical control	1993	[421]

Louis Pasteur	1822	1895	Pasteurization	1978	[422]

C. Kumar N. Patel*	1938	—	Carbon dioxide laser	2012	[423]

Les Paul	1915	2009	Solid-body electric guitar	2005	[424]

Arogyaswami Paulraj	1944	—	MIMO wireless technology	2018	[425]

Gerald Pearson	1905	1987	Solar cell	2008	[426]

Lester Allan Pelton	1829	1908	Waterwheel	2006	[427]

Mary Engle Pennington	1872	1952	Food preservation and food storage	2018	[428]

Radia Perlman	1951	—	Network routing and bridging	2016	[429]

Henry F. Phillips	1890	1958	Phillips screw	2011	[430]

Thomas R. Pickering	1831	1895	Velocipede	2007	[431]

John R. Pierce*	1910	2002	Communications satellite	2003	[432]

Gregory Goodwin Pincus	1903	1967	Oral contraceptives	2006	[433]

Charles J. Plank	1915	1989	Catalytic cracking	1979	[434]

Roy J. Plunkett	1910	1994	Teflon	1985	[435]

Valdemar Poulsen	1869	1942	Magnetic wire recorder	2011	[436]

George Pullman	1831	1897	Pullman car	2006	[437]

Mihajlo Pupin	1858	1935	Loading coil	2011	[438]

Jacqueline Quinn	1967	—	EZVI (Emulsified Zerovalent iron)	2018	[439]

Jacob Rabinow	1910	1999	Optical character recognition	2005	[440]

Grote Reber	1911	2002	Radio telescope	2013	[441]

Louis Renault	1877	1944	Drum brake	2006	[442]

Jesse W. Reno	1861	1947	Escalator	2007	[443]

Rebecca Richards-Kortum	1964	—	Medical devices for low-resource settings	2019	[444]

Kenneth Richardson	1939	—	Fluconazole	2008	[445]

Norbert Rillieux	1806	1894	Refined sugar	2004	[446]

Robert H. Rines	1922	2009	High resolution radar and sonar	1994	[447]

Dennis Ritchie	1941	2011	UNIX operating system	2019	[448]

James Ritty	1836	1918	Cash register	2011	[449]

John Ritty	1834	1913	Cash register	2011	[450]

Ronald Rivest	1947	—	RSA cryptography	2018	[451]

John A. Roebling	1806	1869	Suspension bridge	2004	[452]

John Raphael Rogers	1856	1934	Automated typesetting	2007	[453]

Heinrich Rohrer	1933	2013	Scanning tunneling microscope	1994	[454]

Lubomyr Romankiw	1931	—	Thin film magnetic heads	2012	[455]

Harold Rosen	1926	2017	Spin stabilized synchronous communications satellite	2003	[456]

Edward J. Rosinski	1921	2000	Catalytic cracking	1979	[457]

Benjamin Rubin	1917	2010	Vaccine needle	1992	[458]

Wallace Clement Sabine	1868	1919	Architectural acoustics	2011	[459]

Augustine Sackett	1841	1914	Drywall	2017	[460]

Aran Safir	1926	2007	Iris recognition algorithm	2013	[461]

Lewis Hastings Sarett	1917	1999	Cortisone	1980	[462]

Steven Sasson	1950	—	Digital camera	2011	[463]

Joseph Saxton	1799	1873	Measuring instruments	2006	[464]

Arthur Leonard Schawlow	1921	1999	Laser	1996	[465]

Klaus Schmiegel	1939	—	Prozac	1999	[466]

Peter C. Schultz	1942	—	Optical fiber	1993	[467]

Edmund O. Schweitzer III	1947	—	Digital protective relay	2019	[468]

Glenn T. Seaborg	1912	1999	Plutonium isolation	2005	[469]

Charles Seeberger	1857	1931	Escalator	2007	[470]

Robert J. Seiwald	1925	—	Isothiocyanates	1995	[471]

William Sellers	1824	1905	Improvement in machine tools	2007	[472]

Waldo Semon	1898	1999	Polyvinyl chloride	1995	[473]

Gerhard M. Sessler	1931	—	Microphone	1999	[474]

Adi Shamir	1952	—	RSA cryptography	2018	[475]

Claude Shannon*	1916	2001	Pulse code modulation	2004	[476]

Gary D. Sharp	1962	—	Polarization-control technology	2015	[477]

John C. Sheehan	1915	1992	Structure and synthesis of penicillin	1995	[478]

Patsy O'Connell Sherman	1930	2008	Scotchgard	2001	[479]

Joseph Shivers	1920	2014	LYCRA fiber (Spandex)	2018	[480]

William Shockley	1910	1989	Transistor	1974	[481]

Christopher Latham Sholes	1819	1890	Typewriter	2001	[482]

Frederick Ellsworth Sickels	1819	1895	Valve for steam engine	2007	[483]

Igor Sikorsky	1889	1972	Helicopter	1987	[484]

John Silliker	1922	2015	Microbiological food safety and testing	2016	[485]

Bernard Silver	1924	1963	First optically scanned barcode	2011	[486]

Spencer Silver	1941	—	Post-it notes	2010	[487]

Samuel Slater	1768	1835	Cotton mills	2007	[488]

Games Slayter	1896	1964	Fiberglass	2006	[489]

H. Gene Slottow	1921	1989	Plasma display	2013	[490]

George E. Smith	1930	—	Charge-coupled device	2006	[491]

Samuel Smith	1927	2005	Scotchgard	2001	[492]

James M. Spangler	1848	1915	Portable electric vacuum cleaner	2006	[493]

William Sparks	1905	1976	Butyl rubber	2016	[494]

Percy Spencer	1894	1970	Magnetron	1999	[495]

Elmer Ambrose Sperry	1860	1930	Gyroscopic compass	1991	[496]

Frank J. Sprague	1857	1934	Electric street car	2006	[497]

James Sprague	1909	2000	Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide)	2019	[498]

Rangaswamy Srinivasan	1929	—	LASIK eye surgery	2002	[499]

William Stanley, Jr.	1858	1916	Alternating current	1995	[500]

Gary Starkweather	1938	—	Laser printer	2012	[501]

Charles Steinmetz	1865	1923	Alternating current	1977	[502]

Leo Sternbach	1908	2005	Benzodiazepines	2005	[503]

John Stevens	1749	1838	Steam-powered transportation	2006	[504]

Louis Stevens	1925	2009	Magnetic disk storage	2008	[505]

George Stibitz	1904	1995	Digital computer	1983	[506]

S. Donald Stookey	1915	2014	Glass ceramics	2010	[507]

Harriet Strong	1844	1926	Water storage and flood control	2016	[508]

Herbert M. Strong	1908	2002	Synthetic diamond	2010	[509]

Almon Brown Strowger	1839	1902	Telephone dial	2006	[510]

Eugene Sullivan	1872	1962	Borosilicate glass	2011	[511]

Gideon Sundback	1880	1954	Zipper	2006	[512]

Ivan Sutherland	1938	—	Display windowing by clipping	2016	[513]

Ambrose Swasey	1846	1937	Improvements to telescope	2006	[514]

Leó Szilárd	1898	1964	Neutronic atomic reactor	1996	[515]

Donalee L. Tabern	1900	1974	Pentothal	1986	[516]

Charles Sumner Tainter	1854	1940	Innovations in sound recording	2006	[517]

Esther Sans Takeuchi	1953	—	Lithium/silver-vanadium oxide battery	2011	[518]

Ching W. Tang	1947	—	Organic light-emitting diode (OLED)	2018	[519]

Welton Taylor	1919	2012	Microbiological food safety and testing	2016	[520]

Gordon Kidd Teal*	1907	2003	Method of producing a semiconductor element	2009	[521]

Mária Telkes*	1900	1995	Solar thermal storage system	2012	[522]

Paul Terasaki	1929	2016	Tissue typing for organ transplants, Terasaki tray	2018	[523]

Eli Terry	1772	1852	Innovations in clockmaking	2007	[524]

Nikola Tesla	1856	1943	Induction motor	1975	[525]

John H. Thomas	1907	1991	Fiberglass	2006	[526]

Robert M. Thomas	1908	1984	Butyl rubber	2016	[527]

David A. Thompson	1940	—	Thin film magnetic heads	2012	[528]

Ken Thompson	1943	—	UNIX operating system	2019	[529]

Elihu Thomson	1853	1937	Arc lamp	2006	[530]

Louis Comfort Tiffany	1848	1933	Stained glass	2007	[531]

Henry Timken	1831	1909	Tapered roller ball bearings	1998	[532]

Max Tishler	1906	1989	Synthetic vitamins	1982	[533]

Charles Hard Townes*	1915	2015	Laser	1976	[534]

James Truchard	1943	—	LabVIEW	2019	[535]

Charlie Tyson	1905	1977	Catalytic cracking	1999	[536]

William E. Upjohn	1853	1932	Tablet for delivering medicine	2006	[537]

Theophilus Van Kannel	1841	1919	Revolving door	2007	[538]

Steven Van Slyke	1956	—	Organic light-emitting diode (OLED)	2018	[539]

Andrew Viterbi	1935	—	Spread spectrum multiple access communication system	2013	[540]

Ernest H. Volwiler	1893	1992	Pentothal	1986	[541]

Theodore von Kármán	1881	1963	Turbojet	2003	[542]

Hans von Ohain	1911	1998	Jet engine	2003	[543]

Carl Auer von Welsbach	1858	1929	Improvements to gas lighting	2011	[544]

David Wait	1953	—	Microarray	2019	[545]

Selman Waksman	1888	1973	Streptomycin	2005	[546]

An Wang	1920	1990	Magnetic core memory	1988	[547]

Frank Wanlass	1933	2010	Low stand-by power complementary field effect circuitry	2009	[548]

William J. Warner	1955	—	Digital non-linear editing system	2019	[549]

Lewis Waterman	1837	1901	Fountain pen	2006	[550]

Thomas A. Watson	1854	1934	Improvements to telephone	2011	[551]

Robert H. Wentorf, Jr.	1926	1997	Synthetic diamond	2010	[552]

James Edward Maceo West	1931	—	Microphone	1999	[553]

George Westinghouse	1846	1914	Alternating current	1989	[554]

Edward Weston	1850	1936	Portable voltmeter	2006	[555]

Squire Whipple	1804	1888	Iron truss bridge	2007	[556]

Richard T. Whitcomb	1921	2009	Supercritical wing	2003	[557]

Rollin H. White	1872	1962	Flash boiler for generating steam-controlled differential steering	2011	[558]

Willis Whitfield	1919	2012	Clean room	2014	[559]

Eli Whitney	1765	1825	Cotton gin	1974	[560]

Frank Whittle	1907	1996	Jet engine	2003	[561]

Otto Wichterle	1913	1998	Soft contact lens	2007	[562]

Bob Widlar	1937	1991	Biasing scheme especially suited for integrated circuits	2009	[563]

Stephen Wilcox	1830	1893	Steam generator	1997	[564]

Robert R. Williams	1886	1965	Vitamin synthesis	1991	[565]

Sam B. Williams	1921	2009	Contributions to jet engine	2003	[566]

Robert Willson	1936	—	Plasma display	2013	[567]

Field H. Winslow	1916	2009	Polymer cable sheath	2010	[568]

Alexander Winton	1860	1932	Contributions to automobile, bicycle, and diesel engine	2006	[569]

Norman Joseph Woodland	1921	2012	First optically scanned barcode	2011	[570]

Granville Woods	1856	1910	Railroad telegraph	2006	[571]

Steve Wozniak	1950	—	Personal computer	2000	[572]

Orville Wright	1871	1948	Airplane	1975	[573]

Wilbur Wright	1867	1912	Airplane	1975	[574]

James J. Wynne	1943	—	LASIK eye surgery	2002	[575]

Linus Yale, Jr.	1821	1868	Cylinder lock	2006	[576]

Ioannis Yannas	1935	—	Artificial skin	2015	[577]

Alejandro Zaffaroni	1923	2014	Drug delivery systems	2012	[578]

Frank Zamboni	1901	1988	Ice resurfacer	2007	[579]

Ferdinand von Zeppelin	1838	1917	Rigid airship	2006	[580]

Vladimir K. Zworykin*	1888	1982	Cathode-ray tube	1977	[581]

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