# New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame

The New Jersey Inventor's Hall of Fame was established in 1987 to honor individuals and corporations in New Jersey for their inventions. Award recipients are recognized at the annual Award Banquet Dinner. The New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame operated from 1987 to 2002 at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, from 2003 to 2007 with support from the Research and Development Council of New Jersey. Starting in 2008 it was under the aegis of Stevens Institute of Technology Office of Academic Entrepreneurship. In 2010, Greenberg Traurig became a co-sponsor of the organization.

## Hall of Fame Inductees

| Name | Year | Invention | NJ affiliation |
| Seth Boyden | 1989 | malleable iron | Newark, New Jersey worked |
| John Stevens (inventor) | 1989 | various innovations | Hoboken, New Jersey lived |
| Jan A. Rajchman | 1989 | read-only memory | Radio Corporation of America |
| Albert Einstein | 1989 | theoretical physics | Institute for Advanced Study |
| Alfred Vail | 1989 | telegraph | Speedwell Ironworks |
| Thomas A. Edison | 1989 | various innovations | Edison laboratory |
| Leo Sternbach | 1989 | benzodiazepines | Hoffman-La Roche |
| Selman Waksman | 1989 | streptomycin | Rutgers University |
| Roy Weber | 1989 | Intelligent Network Services - 800 Number | Bell Labs |
| Vladimir Zworykin | 1989 | television | Radio Corporation of America |
| Jerome H. Lemelson | 1990 | | |
| Oberlin Smith | 1990 | magnetic recording | Bridgeton, New Jersey lived |
| Hannibal Goodwin | 1990 | | Newark, New Jersey lived |
| Edward Weston (chemist) | 1990 | | New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| Karl G. Jansky | 1992 | radio telescope | Bell Labs |
| Albert Rose (physicist) | 1992 | video camera tube | Radio Corporation of America |
| Paul K. Weimer | 1992 | thin-film transistor | Radio Corporation of America |
| John H. Sinfelt | 1992 | unleaded gasoline | ExxonMobil |
| James Hillier | 1992 | electron microscope | Radio Corporation of America |
| Solomon Andrews (inventor) | 1992 | dirigible | Perth Amboy, New Jersey lived |
| Walter Lincoln Hawkins | 1992 | | Bell Labs |
| Charles Joseph Fletcher | 1993 | aerospace innovations | Franklin, New Jersey lived |
| Sidney Pestka | 1993 | | Hoffmann-La Roche |
| Robert Wendell Lucky | 1993 | | Bell Labs |
| Walter Brattain | 1994 | transistor | Bell Labs |
| William Shockley | 1994 | transistor | Bell Labs |
| John Bardeen | 1994 | transistor | Bell Labs |
| Glenn Dimmick | 1995 | Sound Motion Picture Recording | RCA |
| Les Paul | 1996 | guitar pickup | Mahwah, New Jersey lived |
| Harry F. Olson | 1996 | | Radio Corporation of America |
| James L. Flanagan | 1997 | | Rutgers University |
| Richard Howland Ranger | 1997 | | Radio Corporation of America |
| Alfred Y. Cho | 1997 | | Bell Labs |
| Allen Balcom DuMont | 1998 | television | DuMont Television Network |
| William O. Baker | 1998 | synthetic rubber | Bell Labs |
| Edwin Howard Armstrong | 1998 | FM radio, regenerative receiver, superheterodyne receiver | Alpine, New Jersey worked |
| Arthur Leonard Schawlow | 1999 | | Bell Labs |
| Morton A. Kreitchman | 1999 | fluid control valves | Valcor Engineering Corporation |
| Willis Haviland Carrier | 1999 | air conditioning | Newark, New Jersey worked |
| Simon Lake | 2000 | submarine innovations | Pleasantville, New Jersey born |
| Arthur Nobile | 2000 | prednisone | Newark, New Jersey born |
| Martin Goetz | 2000 | software | Applied Data Research |
| Lee de Forest | 2001 | audion tube | |
| Eger V. Murphree | 2001 | fluid catalytic cracking | ExxonMobil |
| Donald L. Campbell | 2001 | fluid catalytic cracking | ExxonMobil |
| Arun Netravali | 2001 | HDTV | Bell Labs |
| Gerald Ash | 2001 | Dynamic Non-Hierarchical Routing | Bell Labs |
| Herwig Kogelnik | 2002 | | Bell Labs |
| John Augustus Roebling | 2002 | suspension bridge innovations | Trenton, New Jersey worked |
| Samuel Leeds Allen | 2004 | Flexible Flyer | Moorestown Township, New Jersey |
| James M. Early | 2004 | Early effect | Bell Labs |
| Calvin Souther Fuller | 2005 | photovoltaics | Bell Labs |
| Gerard A. Alphonse | 2005 | | IEEE |
| Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie | 2006 | programming languages | Bell Labs |
| Kenneth Lane Thompson | 2006 | programming languages | Bell Labs |
| Harold Stephen Black | 2006 | negative feedback amplifier | Bell Labs |
| Henry Orenstein | 2006 | various toys | Topper Toys |
| James West | 2008 | electret microphone | Bell Labs |
| Eugene I. Gordon | 2008 | fiber optics innovations | Bell Labs |
| George E. Smith | 2008 | charge-coupled device | Bell Labs |
| Willard Boyle | 2008 | charge-coupled device | Bell Labs |
| Gerhard M. Sessler | 2008 | electret microphone | Bell Labs |
| Edward C. Taylor | 2008 | tetracycline | Princeton University |
| Herman Sokol | 2009 | pemetrexed | Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| Michael Francis Tompsett | 2010 | First Thermal and Charge Coupled Imager Patents , CCD Cameras and MOS Video ADC | Bell Labs |
| Lynn Schneemeyer | 2011 | material science innovations | Rutgers University |
| Arthur A. Gertzman | 2011 | Synthetic Bone Graft Materials, Malleable Paste for Filling Bone Defects | Gertzman Enterprises |
| John Siekierka | 2011 | Research and Development for Anti-Inflammatory Drug and Delivery Device | Bell Labs |
| William K. Hagmann | 2012 | medicinal chemistry innovations | Merck & Co |
| Elwin Orton | 2012 | Breakthroughs and Saving the U.S. Dogwood Industry | Rutgers University |
| Shu- Tung Li | 2012 | Medical Implants for the Repair and Regeneration of Soft Tissue and Bones | Collagen Matrix, Inc. |
| Endre Alexander Balazs | 2012 | Orthopedic Research & Groundbreaking Discoveries in Utilizing Hyaluron for Therapeutic Purposes | Columbia University Medical Center; Biomatrix, Inc. (NJ Resident) |
| C. Frank Wheatley Jr. | 2013 | Power semiconductor devices and integrated circuits and most notably the Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) | RCA |
| Leo Schenker | 2013 | Patented inventions and discoveries related to touch tone dialing and its immense impact in the public switch telephone network (PSTN) | IEEE |
| Sander G. Mills | 2013 | Discoveries in cancer research and most notably the substance Aprepitant, which has had worldwide impact in patient compliance/tolerance for chemotherapy and other cancer treatments | Merck & Co. |
| Adel A. Ahmed | 2013 | Bipolar integrated circuit design and worldwide use of the Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) integrated circuit | RCA |
| Philip Anderson | 2013 | Elucidating the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, which allowed for the development of electronic switching and memory devices in computers | Bell Labs |
| Jack Craft | 2014 | TV and radio integrated circuit designs | RCA |
| Rajiv V. Joshi | 2014 | Development of integrated circuits (IC), memory and predictive analytics | Columbia University (NJ Resident) |
| John R. Pierce | 2014 | Information theory and global and satellite communications | Bell Labs |
| Vladimir S. Ban | 2014 | Semi-conductor and optical network technologies | RCA |
| Krishan K. Sabnani | 2014 | Global communication networks | Bell Labs |
| Nikola Tesla | 2014 | Patented inventions transforming electrical engineering principles including alternating current (AC) and the radio | Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing |
| Edward Cecelski | | VCR, metal disk player | RCA |
| Dennis D. Jamiolkowski | 2015 | Absorbable polymers and their applications in implantable medical and surgical devices | Ethicon Inc. |
| John Fenn | 2015 | Electrospray Mass Spectrometry (ESMS) technique used in biomedical research | Princeton University |
| Owen O'Connor | 2015 | Patented work on novel small molecules, including a pioneering drug portfolio for treatment of lymphoma | Columbia University (NJ Resident) |
| George Feldstein | 2015 | Audio, visual and automation technologies | Crestron Electronics |
| Salvatore Salamone | 2016 | Oncology research, Therapeutic Diagnostics, health care and medical device services | Rutgers University; Saladax Biomedical (NJ Resident) |
| Yann LeCun | 2016 | Image and speech recognition and advent of Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) | Bell Labs |
| Donald Landry | 2016 | Cardiovascular Biology to cancer research | Columbia University (NJ Resident) |
| Howard Fidel | 2016 | Biomedical device patents and medical ultrasound | NJIT |
Other Hall of Fame Inductees
* 1989
** Calvin MacCracken
** Roy Weber
* 1990
** Hubert Lechevalier
** Arthur Patchett
** William Pfefferle
** Harold Seidel
** Marvin Weinstein
* 1991
** Benjamin Abeles, George Cody
** Carlyle Caldwell
** Gordon W. Calundann
** Andrew G. F. Dingwall
** C. Reed Funk
** Anthony D. Kurtz
** Jerome Murray
* 1992
** Melvin L. Druin
** Frederick J. Karol
** Harold Law
** William L. Maxson
* 1993
** Marc A. Chavannes, Alfred W. Fielding
** Erwin Klingsberg
** Keith D. Millis
* 1994
** Jack Avins
** William O. Geyer
** George R. Hansen
** Phillip H. Smith
** Richard Williams (inventor)
* 1995
** David Aronson (inventor)
** Alvin M. Cohan
** George deStevens
** Joseph J. Mascuch
** Glenn Leslie Dimmick
** Kenneth S. Johnson
* 1996
** Richard Dehmel (inventor)
** Arnold J. Morway
** Charles Frederick Wallace
** N. Joseph Woodland
* 1997
** Ezra Gould
** Milton Morse
** Harry L. Yale
* 1998
** Joseph Abys
** Nikil S. Jayant
** Henry M. Rowan
* 1999
** Cyrus W. Bemmels
** Haig Kafafian
** Morton A. Kreitchman
* 2000
** Albert Ballman, Robert Laudise, Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies of Murray Hill, NJ
** Alan White (inventor)
* 2001
** Homer Z. Martin
** Charles W. Tyson
** Abdul Gaffar
** Glen A. Reitmeier
* 2002
** Isaac S. Blonder
** Ben H. Tongue
** Anthony E. Winston
* 2004
** Dr. Corrado Dragone
** Mr. Walter J. Krupick
** Colonel Willian Blair
** Dr. Meredith C. Gourdine
* 2005
** William Trager
** Howard J. Ellison
** Clarence D. Chang, Anthony J. Silvestri, William H. Lang
* 2006
** Daryl M. Chapin, Gerald L. Pearson
* 2009
** Yvonne Claeys Brill
* 2010
** Dr. Michael Tompsett
** Dr. Andrew Chraplyvy
** Dr. Robert Tkach
** Dr. Kenneth Walker (inventor)

## Inventors of the Year

| Name | Year | Invention | NJ affiliation |
| David Cushman | 1989 | captopril | Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| Miguel Ondetti | 1989 | captopril | Bristol-Myers Squibb |
| Dave Narasimhan | 1989 | | AlliedSignal |
| Raymond W. Ketchledge | 1989 | | Bell Labs |
| Donald L. Klein | 1994 | Transistor | Bell Labs |
| Liang Tai Wu | 1995 | Asynchronous Transfer Mode | Bell Communications Research |
| John B. MacChesney | 1995 | optical communications | Bell Labs |
| James West | 1995 | electret microphone | Bell Labs |
| Tsong-Ho Wu & Richard Lau | 1997 | Self-Healing Ring Networks | Bell Communications Research |
| Bishnu Atal | 2000 | linear predictive coding | Bell Labs |
| Philip Warren Anderson | 2001 | | Bell Labs |
| Irwin Gerszberg | 2002 | Innovations in DSL and Telco Plant | AT&T Labs |
| Hossein Eslambolchi | 2002 | | Bell Labs |
| Robert Morris (cryptographer) | 2004 | cryptography | Bell Labs |
| Yeheskel Bar-Ness | 2006 | | New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| Sidney Pestka | 2008 | interferon | Hoffman-La Roche |
| Gianluca Paladini | 2011 | volume visualization | Siemens |
| Comaniciu | 2011 | robust object tracking | Siemens |
| Pal Maliga | 2011 | chloroplast transformation, plastid transformation | Rutgers University |
| Paula Tallal | 2012 | educational software innovations | Rutgers University |
| Bruce McNair | 2012 | | |
| Sergei Kotenko | 2012 | | |
| Nirwan Ansari | 2012 | | |
| Nicholi Vorsa | 2013 | | |
| Richard Mammone. | 2013 | | |
| Ximing Guo and Standish, K. Allen Jr. | 2013 | | |
| Joseph Giovannoli | 2013 | | |
| Moon Hae Sunwoo. | 2014 | | |
| Richard E Riman. | 2014 | | |
| Athula B. Attygalle | 2014 | | |
| Raziq Yaqub. | 2014 | | |
| William T. Murphy | 2014 | | |
Other Inventors of the Year
* 1989
** Frank Gutleber
** Sheldon Karesh, Dusan Prevorsek
** Leo Harwood
** Amos Joel, Jr.
** Glenn Johnson, Jr.
** Walter Kosonocky
** Mandayam Narasimhan
** Deger Tunc
* 1990
** Michael Catapano, Renato Noe
** Daniel Kramer (inventor)
** Juris Mednis
** Franklin Reick
** Bart Zoltan
* 1991
** William Charney
** Charles Covino
** Jack R. Hartford
** Frederick M. Kahan
** Gregory H. Olsten
** Joseph F. Rizzo
** David Savage, Guido Sartori & Winston S. Ho
** Stanley S. Schodowski
** Joseph V. Milo
* 1992
** Murrae Bowden, Larry F. Thompson
** John D. Geberth, Jr.
** Gideon Goldstein
** August F. Manz
** Victor Palinczar
** Ross C. Terrell
* 1993
** Michael J. Flowers
** Louis L. Grube
** Sue Wilson
* 1994
** Eric J. Addeo
** Robert E. Kerwin, Donald L. Klein, John C. Sarace
** Kuo-Yann Lai
** June D. Passaretti
** Milan R. Uskokovic
** Gilbert Zweig
* 1995
** Richard Frenkiel
** Robert D. Howson
** Carl H. X
** Liang Tai Wu
* 1996
** Leslie R. Avery
** Gilbert Buchalter
** Lanny S. Smoot
** Dominik M. Wiktor
* 1997
** Arthur L. Babson
** Walter Jinotti
** Steven M. Kuznicki
** Lee-Fang Wei
** Tsong-Ho Wu, Richard C.L. Lau
* 1998
** Gary Ver Strate Mark J. Struglinski of Exxon Chemical Company in Linden, John E. Johnston of Warren Exxon Research and Engineering Co. in Annandale, Roger K. West
** Joseph Dettling of Howell - Zhicheng Hu, Y.K. Lui, C.Z. Wan, Engelhard Industries
** Michael Pappas (inventor)
** Melvin E. Kamen
** John Mickowski
* 1999
** Andrew Chraplyvy, Matawan Robert Tkach, Kenneth Walker (inventor)
** William Hickerson
* 2000
** Gerard P. Canevari, Robert J. Fiocco, Richard R. Lessard
** Alfonso DiMino
** Barin Haskell
* 2001
** J. Thomas Jennings
** James D. Johnston (inventor)
** Jack H. Winters
* 2002
** Valerie A. Bell
** Irwin Gerszberg
** Antoni S. Gozdz, Jean-Marie Tarascon, Paul C. Warren
* 2004
** Dr. Igor Palley
* 2005
** David M. Goldenberg
** Jack R. Harford
** Harry T. Roman
* 2006
** Claude E. Gagna
* 2008
** Amit Limaye
* 2009
** Michael Seul
** Christos Christodoulatos, George P. Korfiatis, Xiaoguang Meng, Mazakhir Dadachov
* 2010
** Dr. Nicolas Girard (inventor)
** Dr. Bijan Harichian
** Richard Caizza

## Innovator Award

| Name | Year | Field | NJ affiliation |
| Michael L. Recce | 2005 | | |
| Lillian M. Gilbreth | 2005 | scientific management | Montclair, New Jersey |
| Albert Schatz | 2005 | streptomycin | Rutgers University |
| John von Neumann | 2006 | computer science | Institute for Advanced Study |
| Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. | 2006 | scientific management | Montclair, New Jersey |
| Lyman Spitzer, Jr. | 2006 | theoretical physics | Princeton University |
| Michael Wong | 2008 | | |
| Ali Abdi | 2008 | | |
| Mohammed Ettouney | 2008 | | |
| Kamalesh Sirkar | 2009 | | New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| Effat S. Emamian | 2009 | | |
| Raziq Yaqub | 2009 | | |
| Leonard Cimini | 2010 | | |
| Yun-Qing Shi | 2010 | | |
| Linda Brzustowicz | 2010 | | Rutgers University |
| Yun-Qing Shi | 2010 | | |
| Gordon Thomas | 2011 | | |
| Thomas Nosker | 2011 | | |
| Louis J. Lanzerotti | 2012 | | |
| Ricky John | 2012 | | |
| Yingying Chen & Marco Gruteser & Richard P. Martin | 2012 | | |
| Rajarathnam Chandramouli & K.P. Subbalakshmi | 2012 | | |
| Jenny Zilberberg, Ph.D. | 2013 | | |
| Antonio Valdevit, Ph.D. | 2013 | | |
| Roberto Rojas-Cessa, Ph.D. | 2013 | | |
| Scott C. Kachlany, Ph.D. | 2013 | | |
| Treena L. Arinzeh, Ph.D. | 2013 | | |
| David M. Tschaen, Ph.D. | 2014 | | |
| Andrew W. Stamford, Ph.D. | 2014 | | |
| Somenath Mitra, Ph.D. | 2014 | | |
| T.V. Lakshman, Ph.D. | 2014 | | |
| Jeffrey S. Abrams, M.D. | 2014 | | |

## Corporate Award

| Company | Research area | Location | Year |
| AT&T Bell Laboratories | telecommunications | Berkeley Heights, New Jersey | 1989 |
| Merck and Company | pharmaceutical | Rahway, New Jersey | 1990 |
| David Sarnoff Research Center | television | Princeton, New Jersey | 1991 |
| Bell Communications Research | telecommunications | Livingston, New Jersey | 1992 |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb | pharmaceutical | Princeton, New Jersey | 1993 |
| Mobil Research and Development Corporation | petrochemical | Princeton, New Jersey | 1993 |
| Exxon Research and Engineering | petrochemical | Florham Park, New Jersey | 1995 |
| National Starch and Chemical Company | food science | Bridgewater, New Jersey | 1996 |
| Johnson & Johnson | health care | New Brunswick, New Jersey | 1997 |
| Howmedica | health care | Rutherford, New Jersey | 1998 |
| General Magnaplate Corporation | metallurgy | Linden, New Jersey | 2009 |
| Hoffman La Roche | pharmaceutical | Nutley, New Jersey | 2009 |
| Immunomedics | biotechnology | Morris Plains, New Jersey | 2009 |
| Becton Dickinson | health care | Franklin Lakes, New Jersey | 2012 |
| Celgene Corporation | | | 2013 |
| Honeywell International Inc. | | | 2014 |

## Trustees Award

* Representative Rush Holt (2009)
* Dr. Ralph Izzo (2010)
* Dr. Jeong Kim (2011)
* Dr. Stephen Chu (2012)
* Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. (2013)
* Greg Olsen, Ph.D. (2014)

## Outstanding Contributions Award

* Dr. Gertrude M. Clarke (2011)
* Inventor Harry Roman (2012)
* (2013)
* (2014)

## Graduate Student Award

* 2005
** Yuanqiu Luo
** Shuangquan Wang
* 2006
** Sudhakar Shet
** Dimitrios Zarkadas
* 2008
** Zhiqiang Gao
** Amey Shevtekar
** Hong Zhang
* 2009
** Chuan-Bi Lin
** Ziqian Cecilia Dong
** Dipshikha Biswas
* 2010
** Ms. Jingjing Zhang
** Dr. Xiaoling Chen
** Dr. Asli Ergun
* 2011
** Milan Begliarbekov
** Komlan Egoh
** Andrew Ihnen
** Eric Stroud
* 2012
** Xiaoling Fu
** Linh Le
** Seyed Babak Mahjour
** Ishan Wathuthanthri
** Jie Yang
** Yan Zhang
* 2013
** Xuening Chen, Ph.D.
** Chun-Hao Lo, Ph.D.
** Khondaker Salehin, Ph.D.
** Wenting Zhang
* 2014
** Hui Chen
** Yexin Gu
** Tao Han

## Special Award

* 1993
** Bonnie L. James, Cherica Inc., Tuckerton
** Italo Marchiony (1868-1954), Hoboken
* 1994
** Donald J. Sauer
** James T. Reynolds
** John J. Frins
** James Edward Johnstone
* 1995
** Allan H. Willinger
** Michael D. Mintz
** William J. von Liebig
* 1996
** Barbara Derkoski
** Otto Niederer
* 1997
** Martin C. Pettesch
* 1998
** William Lowell of Maplewood, New Jersey for the golf tee
** Quentin T. Kelly, Pennington and WorldWater Corp., Pennington
** Melvin Levinson
* 1999
** William Greeley
* 2000
** Stephan Schaffan, Jr.
* 2001
** David Brown (inventor)
** Wellington Titus
** Fred Topinka
* 2002
** Dave Hammond
* 2004
** Dr. Phillip J. Petillo
** Dr. Majid Abou-Gharbia
* 2009
** Michael J. Flowers
* 2010
** Dr. Timothy Chang (inventor)
* 2012
** Ken Zorovich & Yos Kumthampinij & John C. Earle
* 2013
** Barry H. Katz, M.D.
* 2014
** Ronnie Z. Bochner, M.D.

## Advancement of Invention Award

* New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey (1997)
* New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology (1999)
* Gil Zweig (2009)
* Dr. Dr. Rainer Martini (2011)
* Dr. Dr. Hsuan Lillian Labowsky (2012)
* Dr. Yu-Dong Yao, Ph.D. (2013)
* Dr. Beatrice Hicks, D.Sc. (Hon) (2013)
* Dr. Leslie Brunell, P.E., Ph.D (2014)
* Dr. Beth McGrath, Mercedes McKay & Jason Sayres (2014)
* Dr. Joshua Weston (2014)