National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee List

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A

• James Abercrombie, Blowout Preventer (BOP)
   
• Edward Goodrich Acheson, Carborundum 
    
• Stewart Adams, Ibuprofen 
   
• Leonard Adleman, RSA Cryptography 
   
• John R. Adler Jr., CyberKnife^®
   
• Robert Adler, Television Remote Control 
   
• Herman A. Affel, Coaxial Cable 
   
• Howard Aiken, Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Mark I) 
   
• Jonathan D. Albert, Electronic Ink 
   
• George Edward Alcorn, X-Ray Spectrometer 
   
• Samuel Alderson, Crash Test Dummy 
   
• Ernst F. W. Alexanderson, High-Frequency Alternator 
   
• Andrew Alford, Localizer Antenna System 
   
• James Allison, Immune Checkpoint Blockade Therapy 
   
• Samuel Leeds Allen, Flexible Flyer Sled 
   
• Luis Walter Alvarez, Radio Distance and Direction Indicator 
   
• Iver Anderson, Lead-Free Solder 
   
• Mary Anderson, Windshield Wiper 
   
• R. Rox Anderson, Laser Dermatology 
   
• J. Roger P. Angel, Lightweight Mirrors for Astronomical Telescopes 
   
• George Antheil, Frequency Hopping Communication System 
   
• Thomas J. Armat, Vitascope 
   
• Edwin Howard Armstrong, FM Radio 
   
• Don Arney, Bambi Bucket^® for Aerial Firefighting 
   
• Frances Arnold, Directed Evolution of Enzymes 
   
• Chieko Asakawa, Home Page Reader 
   
• Arthur Ashkin, Optical Trapping 
   
• Martin (John) M. Atalla, MOSFET

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B

• Alpheus Babcock, Cast-Iron Piano Frame   
   
• George H. Babcock, Improvement in Steam Generators    
   
• Karl Bacon, Tubular Steel Track Roller Coaster  
   
• Roger Bacon, High-Performance Carbon Fibers   
   
• Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Bakelite   
   
• John Baer, Thiazide Diuretics (Chlorothiazide)   
   
• Ralph H. Baer, Video Games   
   
• Rodney D. Bagley, Ceramic Substrate in Catalytic Converters   
   
• Shankar Balasubramanian, Sequencing-by-Synthesis (SBS)   
   
• Matthias Baldwin, Locomotive Engine   
   
• Bantval Jayant Baliga, Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor   
   
• Robert Banks, High-Density Polyethylene and Polypropylene Plastics   
   
• Frederick Banting, Isolated, Purified Insulin   
   
• Paul Baran, Digital Packet Switching   
   
• John Bardeen, Transistor   
   
• Rodolphe Barrangou, CRISPR-enhanced Food Products   
   
• C. Donald Bateman, Ground Proximity Warning System   
   
• Patricia Bath, Laserphaco Cataract Surgery   
   
• Andrew J. Beard, Jenny Coupler for Railroad Cars   
   
• Arnold O. Beckman, pH Meter   
   
• Semi Joseph Begun, Magnetic Recording   
   
• Alexander Graham Bell, Improvement in Telegraphy    
   
• Ruth Benerito, Wrinkle-Free Cotton   
   
• Willard H. Bennett, Radio Frequency Mass Spectrometer   
   
• Carl Benz, Modern Automobile   
   
• Evelyn Berezin, Computer Systems for Business Use    
   
• Emile Berliner, Gramophone / Microphone   
   
• Carolyn Bertozzi, Bioorthogonal Chemistry   
   
• Henry Bessemer, Bessemer Process   
   
• Charles Best, Isolated, Purified Insulin   
   
• Eric Betzig, Photoactivated Localization Microscopy (PALM)   
   
• Karl H. Beyer Jr., Thiazide Diuretics (Chlorothiazide)   
   
• Erastus B. Bigelow, Power Loom   
   
• Edwin Binney, Manufacturing Lamp Black   
   
• Gerd Karl Binnig, Scanning Tunneling Microscope   
   
• Forrest M. Bird, Medical Respirator   
   
• John Birden, Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG)   
   
• Clarence Birdseye, Frozen Foods   
   
• Laszlo Josef Biro, Ballpoint Pen   
   
• Donald L. Bitzer, Plasma Display   
   
• Harold Stephen Black, Negative Feedback Amplifier   
   
• S. Duncan Black, Portable Hand-Held Electric Drill   
   
• Eli Whitney Blake, Machine for Crushing Stone   
   
• Tom Blake, Surfboard Design
   
• Helen Blanchard, Zig-Zag Sewing Machine   
   
• Thomas Blanchard, Pattern Lathe   
   
• Sylvia Blankenship, 1-MCP for Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Freshness   
   
• Katharine Burr Blodgett, Langmuir-Blodgett Films   
   
• Samuel E. Blum, Excimer Laser Surgery   
   
• Baruch S. Blumberg, Vaccine for Hepatitis B   
   
• James Bogardus, Iron Buildings   
   
• Nils I. Bohlin, Safety Belt   
   
• Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Snowmobile   
   
• Dana Bookbinder, Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber   
   
• Gail Borden, Jr., Process for Condensing Milk   
   
• Carl Bosch, Process of Producing Ammonia   
   
• Amar Bose, Feedback Control   
   
• Robert W. Bower, Self-Aligned Gate MOSFET   
   
• William Bowerman, Modern Athletic Shoe   
   
• Seth Boyden, Process for Making Malleable Iron   
   
• Herbert W. Boyer, Genetic Engineering   
   
• Otis Boykin, Electronic Resistors   
   
• Willard S. Boyle, Charge-Coupled Device   
   
• Milton Bradley, Game Board   
   
• Jacques E. Brandenberger, Cellophane   
   
• Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Modern Dental Implant   
   
• Charles F. Brannock, Foot-Measuring Device   
   
• Walter H. Brattain, Transistor   
   
• Yvonne Brill, Electrothermal Hydrazine Resistojet   
   
• Angela Hartley Brodie, Aromatase Inhibitors   
   
• Garrett W. Brown, Steadicam^® Camera Stabilizer   
   
• Rachel Fuller Brown, Nystatin (Antifungal / Antibiotic)   
   
• John Moses Browning, Breech-Loading Firearm   
   
• Charles F. Brush, Arc Lamp for Street Lighting   
   
• Robert Bryant, LaRC-SI (Langley Research Center-Soluble Imide)   
   
• Edward W. Bullard, Hard Hat   
   
• Francis P. Bundy, Diamond Synthesis   
   
• Luther Burbank, Peach and Other Fruit   
   
• Joseph H. Burckhalter, Isothiocyanate Compounds for Antigen Identification   
   
• John Francis Burke, Regenerated Skin   
   
• William Seward Burroughs, Calculator   
   
• William Meriam Burton, Catalytic Cracking   
   
• Vannevar Bush, Differential Analyzer 

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• Edward A. Calahan, Stock Ticker
   
• Harry Cameron, Blowout Preventer (BOP)
   
• Donald L. Campbell, Fluid Catalytic Cracking
   
• George Ashley Campbell, Electric Wave Filter
   
• Marvin Camras, Magnetic Recording
   
• Chester F. Carlson, Xerographic Printing
   
• Wallace Hume Carothers, Synthetic Rubber
   
• Willis Haviland Carrier, Air Conditioner
   
• George R. Carruthers, Far Ultraviolet Electrographic Camera
   
• Marvin Caruthers, Chemical Synthesis of DNA
   
• George Washington Carver, Peanut Products
   
• Frank J. Cepollina, Satellite Servicing Techniques
   
• Vinton G. Cerf, Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
    
• Daryl Chapin, Silicon Solar Cell
   
• Emmett W. Chappelle, Bioluminescence Techniques
   
• John Charnley, Acetabular Sockets
   
• Emmanuelle Charpentier, CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
   
• Mary-Dell Chilton, Transgenic Plant
   
• Alfred Y. Cho, Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE)
   
• Edith Clarke, Graphical Calculator
   
• Georges Claude, Neon Tubing
   
• Josephine Garis Cochran, Dishwasher
   
• Stanley N. Cohen, Genetic Engineering
   
• James Collip, Isolated, Purified Insulin
   
• Samuel Colt, Revolver with Interchangeable Parts
   
• Frank B. Colton, Oral Contraceptives
   
• Barrett O. Comiskey, Electronic Ink
   
• Lloyd H. Conover, Tetracycline
   
• Lynn Conway, Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)
   
• William D. Coolidge, X-Ray
   
• Peter Cooper, Steam Boiler Fire-Box
   
• Rory Cooper, Wheelchair Technology
   
• Harry W. Coover, Superglue
   
• George Henry Corliss, Improvements in the Steam Engine
   
• Martha Coston, Signal Flares used by Ships
   
• Frederick G. Cottrell, Electrostatic Precipitator
   
• Wallace Coulter, Coulter Principle
   
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Diving Equipment
   
• Joshua Lionel Cowen, Toy Train
   
• Eckley B. Coxe, Traveling-Grate Furnace
   
• Seymour Cray, Supercomputer
   
• Marian Croak, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) Technology
   
• George Crompton, Loom
   
• David Crosthwait, Heating and Ventilation System Design
   
• Glenn Hammond Curtiss, Hydroaeroplane
   
• David Wayne Cushman, Captopril 

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• Gottlieb Daimler, Design of Automobile and Motorcycle Engines
   
• Raymond V. Damadian, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
   
• Raffaello D'Andrea, Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
   
• John G. Daugman, Iris Recognition Algorithm
   
• Donald Watts Davies, Digital Packet Switching
   
• Mark Dean, Peripherals
   
• Alonzo G. Decker, Portable Hand-Held Electric Drill
   
• John Deere, Improvement in Plows
   
• Lee de Forest, Audion Amplifier
   
• George de Mestral, VELCRO^® Fasteners
   
• Robert H. Dennard, Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM)
   
• George Devol, Industrial Robot
   
• Albert B. Dick, Duplicating Machine
   
• Earle Dickson, BAND-AID^® Brand Adhesive Bandages
   
• Rudolf Diesel, Internal-Combustion Engine
   
• Whitfield Diffie, Public-Key Cryptography
   
• Richard DiMarchi, Insulin LisPro (Humalog^®)
   
• Walt Disney, Multiplane Camera
   
• Carl Djerassi, Oral Contraceptives
   
• Ray Dolby, Dolby Noise Reduction
   
• Marion Donovan, Waterproof Diaper Cover


• Jennifer Doudna, CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
   
• Herbert Henry Dow, Bromine Extraction
   
• Charles Stark Draper, Stabilizing Gyroscope
   
• Mildred Dresselhaus, Superlattice Structures for Thermoelectric Devices
   
• Charles Richard Drew, Blood Plasma Preservation
   
• Richard Gurley Drew, Adhesive Tape
   
• Philip Drinker, Respiration Apparatus
   
• John Boyd Dunlop, Pneumatic Tire for Cycles
   
• Graham J. Durant, Tagamet - Cimetidine
   
• Benjamin Durfee, Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Mark I) 

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E

• James Buchanan Eads, American Infrastructure and Defense
   
• George Eastman, Dry Plate Photography System
   
• Roger Easton, TIMATION Satellite Navigation System
   
• J. Presper Eckert, ENIAC
   
• Harold E. Edgerton, Stroboscope
   
• Thomas Alva Edison, Electric Lamp
   
• Alfred Einhorn, Novocain
   
• Willem Einthoven, Electrocardiograph
   
• Gertrude Belle Elion, Anti-Leukemia Drugs
   
• Carleton van Staal Ellis, Margarine
   
• John Colin Emmett, Tagamet - Cimetidine
   
• Akira Endo, Mevastatin
   
• Douglas Engelbart, Computer Mouse
   
• John Ericsson, Screw Propeller
   
• Lloyd Espenschied, Coaxial Cable
   
• Oliver Evans, High-Pressure Steam Engine
   
• Ole Evinrude, Outboard Motor 

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F

• Maxime Faget, Space Capsule Design
   
• Federico Faggin, Microprocessor
   
• Moses G. Farmer, Electric Fire Alarm System
   
• Philo Taylor Farnsworth, Television System
   
• James L. Fergason, Liquid Crystal Display
   
• Enrico Fermi, Nuclear Fission
   
• Reginald A. Fessenden, AM Radio
   
• Harvey Firestone, Pneumatic Rubber Tires
   
• John Fitch, Propelling Boats with Steam
   
• Edith Flanigen, Molecular Sieves
   
• Leonard Flom, Iris Recognition System
   
• Thomas J. Fogarty, Embolectomy Catheter
   
• M. Judah Folkman, Angiogenesis Inhibition
   
• Henry Ford, Transmission Mechanism
   
• Jay W. Forrester, Random Access Memory
   
• Eric R. Fossum, CMOS Active Pixel Image Sensor Camera-on-a-Chip
   
• John E. Franz, Glyphosate Herbicide
   
• Alfred H. Free, Glucose Detection for Diabetes
   
• Helen M. Free, Glucose Detection for Diabetes
   
• Ross Freeman, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
   
• Emil J Freireich, Continuous-Flow Blood Separator
   
• Harold Froehlich, Alvin Deep-Sea Submersible
   
• Dov  Frohman-Bentchkowsky, Electrically Programmable Read-Only Memory Array
   
• Arthur L. Fry, Post-it^® Notes
   
• James Fujimoto, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
   
• Calvin Fuller, Silicon Solar Cell
   
• Robert Fulton, Steamboat 

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G

• Dennis Gabor, Electron Holography
   
• Ashok Gadgil, Water Disinfecting Device
   
• Emile Gagnan, Diving Equipment
   
• Robert Gallo, HIV Virus Isolation and Diagnosis
   
• Haren Gandhi, Automotive Exhaust Catalysts
   
• Charon Robin Ganellin, Tagamet - Cimetidine
   
• Edmund Germer, Fluorescent Lamp
   
• Ivan Getting, Global Positioning System
   
• John Gibbon, Heart-Lung Machine
   
• King Camp Gillette, Safety Razor
   
• Charles P. Ginsburg, Video Tape Recording
   
• Joseph F. Glidden, Barbed Wire
   
• Robert Hutchings Goddard, Solid Fuel Rockets
   
• William A. Goddard, Magnetic Disk Drive
   
• Leopold Godowsky, Jr., Kodachrome® Film
   
• Peter C. Goldmark, Long-Playing (LP) Record
   
• Andrea Goldsmith, Adaptive Beamforming for Multi-Antenna Wi-Fi
   
• Hannibal Goodwin, Transparent Flexible Nitrocellulose Film
   
• Charles Goodyear, Vulcanization of Rubber
   
• Robert W. Gore, ePTFE, Known by the GORE-TEX^® Brand Name
   
• Gordon Gould, Optically Pumped Laser Amplifiers
   
• Barney Graham, Structure-Based Vaccine Design
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• Zenobe Theophile Gramme, Direct-Current Dynamo
   
• Elisha Gray, Telegraphic Instruments
   
• Wilson Greatbatch, Implantable Pacemaker
   
• Leonard Michael Greene, Aircraft Stall Warning Device
   
• Leroy Grumman, Retractable Landing Gear; Folding Wing
   
• Robert Gundlach, Modern Photocopier 

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• Jaap C. Haartsen, Bluetooth^® Wireless Technology  
   
• Fritz Haber, Production of Ammonia
   
• Charles Martin Hall, Manufacture of Aluminum
   
• H. Tracy Hall, Diamond Synthesis
   
• Lloyd Augustus Hall, Food Preservatives
   
• Robert N. Hall, Semiconductor Laser
   
• Thomas Seavey Hall, Improvement in Electrical Signals
   
• Andrew Smith Hallidie, Cable Car
   
• Francis Hamilton, Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Mark I)
   
• John Hays Hammond, Jr., Radio Control
   
• William Edward Hanford, Polyurethane
   
• Eli Harari, Floating Gate EEPROM
   
• W. Lincoln Hawkins, Polymer Cable Sheath
   
• Elizabeth Lee Hazen, Nystatin (Antifungal / Antibiotic)
   
• Howard Head, Laminate Ski; Oversized Tennis Racket
   
• M. Stephen Heilman, Implantable Heart Defibrillator
   
• George Heilmeier, Electro-Optic Liquid Crystal Device 
   
• Martin Hellman, Public-Key Cryptography
   
• Francois Hennebique, Reinforced-Concrete Construction
   
• Beulah Louise Henry, Various Inventions for Daily Use
   
• Harald Hess, Photoactivated Localization Microscopy (PALM)
   
• Peter Cooper Hewitt, Mercury-Vapor Lamp
   
• William R. Hewlett, Audio Oscillator
   
• Beatrice Hicks, Device for Sensing Gas Density
   
• Andrew Higgins, LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel); Higgins Boats
   
• Rene Alphonse Higonnet, Photo Composing Machine
   
• Maurice Ralph Hilleman, Vaccines
   
• James  Hillier, Electron Microscope Lens Correction Device
   
• Richard Hoe, Double-Cylinder Printing Press
   
• Jean A. Hoerni, Method of Manufacturing Semiconductor Devices 
   
• Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff, Microprocessor
   
• Felix Hoffmann, Aspirin
   
• J. Paul Hogan, High-Density Polyethylene and Polypropylene Plastics
   
• John Phillip Holland, Submarine
   
• Herman Hollerith, Punch Card Tabulator
   
• Alexander L. Holley, Steelmaking Process in America
   
• Kerrie Holley, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
   
• Birdsill Holly, Jr., Modern-Day Fire Hydrant
   
• Donald Fletcher Holmes, Polyurethane 
    
• Nick Holonyak, Jr., LED
   
• Virginia Holsinger, Dairy Product Innovations
   
• Benjamin Holt, Track-Type Tractor
   
• Stan Honey, Sports Broadcast Graphic Enhancements
   
• Leroy Edward Hood, DNA Sequencer
   
• Erna Schneider Hoover, Computerized Telephone Switching
   
• Philippe Horvath, CRISPR-enhanced Food Products
   
• Larry Hornbeck, Digital Micromirror Device
   
• Eugene Houdry, Catalytic Cracking
   
• Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, CT Scan
   
• Elias Howe, Sewing Machine
   
• David Huang, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
   
• George Hulett, Loading and Unloading Machine
   
• Charles Hull, Stereolithography (3-D Printing)
   
• Walter Hunt, Safety Pin
   
• John Wesley Hyatt, Celluloid
   
• J. Franklin Hyde, Transparent Silica 

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• Simon Ingersoll, Steam-Powered Rock Drill
   
• Frederic Eugene Ives, Color Photography 

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• Irwin Mark Jacobs, CDMA Technology
   
• Joseph M. Jacobson, Electronic Ink
   
• Ali Javan, Helium-Neon Laser
   
• Allene Jeanes, Dextran Production; Xanthan Gum
   
• Alec Jeffreys, Genetic Fingerprinting
   
• Charles Jenkins, Motion Picture Projector
   
• Thomas Jennings, Dry Scouring
   
• Steve Jobs, iPod User Interface^®
   
• Amos Joel, Jr., Mobile Communication System
   
• Clarence Johnson, Afterburning Means for Turbo-Jet Engines
   
• Kristina M. Johnson, Polarization-Control Technology
   
• Lonnie Johnson, Super Soaker^®
   
• Warren S. Johnson, Temperature Control
   
• Frederick McKinley Jones, Mobile Refrigeration
   
• Howard S. Jones, Jr., Conformal Antennas
   
• Marshall Jones, Industrial Lasers
   
• Kenneth C. Jordan, Radioisotopic Thermoelectric Generator (RTG)
   
• Marjorie Stewart Joyner, Permanent Wave Machine
   
• George Judson, Continuous-Flow Blood Separator
   
• Percy Lavon Julian, Preparation of Cortisone 

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• Robert E. Kahn, Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol
   
• Dawon Kahng, MOSFET
   
• Charles H. Kaman, Rotor Control Mechanism for Helicopter
   
• Dean Kamen, AutoSyringe^® Ambulatory Infusion Pump
   
• Sheldon Kaplan, EpiPen^® Auto-Injector
   
• Katalin Karikó, Modified mRNA Technology Used in COVID-19 Vaccines
   
• Donald B. Keck, Optical Fiber
   
• Cyril Keller, Bobcat^® Skid-Steer Loader
   
• Louis Keller, Bobcat^® Skid-Steer Loader
   
• John H. Kellogg, Breakfast Cereal
   
• Charles D. Kelman, Cataract Surgery
   
• Clarence Kemp, Passive Solar Water Heater
   
• Charles Franklin Kettering, Electrical Ignition System
   
• Mary Dixon Kies, Process for Weaving Straw with Silk or Thread
   
• Jack S. Kilby, Integrated Circuit
   
• Albert Kingsbury, Thrust Bearing
   
• Dale Kleist, Fiberglass
   
• David Klenerman, Sequencing-by-Synthesis (SBS)
   
• Margaret E. Knight, Machine for Making Flat-Bottom Paper Bags
   
• Jeff Kodosky, Virtual Instrumentation - LabVIEW™
   
• Willem J. Kolff, Artificial Heart
   
• Paul Kollsman, Altimeter
   
• William J. Kroll, Titanium Production
   
• Raymond Kurzweil, Optical Character Recognition
   
• Stephanie Louise Kwolek, Kevlar^® Fiber 

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• Irwin M. Lachman, Ceramic Substrate in Catalytic Converters
   
• Clair Lake, Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Mark I)
   
• Hedy Lamarr, Frequency Hopping Communication System
   
• Edwin Herbert Land, Instant One-Step Photography
   
• Alois A. Langer, Implantable Heart Defibrillator
   
• Robert S. Langer, Jr., Controlled Drug Delivery
   
• Irving Langmuir, Incandescent Electric Lamp
   
• Lorenzo L. Langstroth, Beehive
   
• Vincent L. Lanza, Polymer Cable Sheath
   
• Lewis Latimer, Durable Carbon Filament for Electric Light Bulbs
   
• Paul Christian Lauterbur, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
   
• Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Cyclotron
   
• Victor B. Lawrence, Signal Processing in Telecommunications
   
• William P. Lear, Car Radio
   
• Joseph Lechleider, DSL - Digital Subscriber Line
   
• Robert S. Ledley, CT Scan
   
• Joseph Lee, Bread Machines
   
• Tom Leighton, Content Delivery Network
   
• Henry M. Leland, Interchangeable Parts for Automobiles
   
• Daniel Lewin, Content Delivery Network
   
• Ronald M. Lewis, Ceramic Substrate in Catalytic Converters
   
• Ming-Jun Li, Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
   
• Frances Ligler, Portable Optical Biosensors
   
• Lisa Lindahl, Sports Bra
   
• Edwin A. Link, Flight Simulator
   
• Barbara Liskov, Programming Languages and System Design
   
• Oliver Joseph Lodge, Electric Telegraphy
   
• Alfred L. Loomis, LORAN
   
• Auguste-Marie Lumiere, Cinematographe
   
• Louis Lumiere, Cinematographe
   
• John Joseph Lynott, Magnetic Disk Drive 

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• Paul B. MacCready, Gossamer Condor
   
• John Macdougall, Ion Implantation
   
• Stanley Macomber, Open Web Joist
   
• Asad Madni, MEMS Gyroscope for Aerospace and Automotive Safety
   
• Theodore Harold Maiman, Laser
   
• Ken Manchester, Ion Implantation
   
• Leopold Mannes, Kodachrome^® Film
   
• Peter Mansfield, Magnetic Resonance Imaging
   
• Guglielmo Marconi, Radio
   
• Warren Marrison, Quartz Clock
   
• Pamela Marrone, Biological Pest Control
   
• Homer Z. Martin, Fluid Catalytic Cracking
   
• John L. Mason, Mason Jar
   
• Jan Ernst Matzeliger, Shoe-Lasting Machine
   
• John Mauchly, ENIAC
   
• Robert D. Maurer, Optical Fiber
   
• Hiram S. Maxim, Maxim Gun; Smokeless Gunpowder
   
• Wilhelm Maybach, Explosion and Combustion Motor
   
• Stanley Mazor, Microprocessor
   
• Cyrus McCormick, Mechanical Reaper
   
• Elijah McCoy, Automatic Engine Lubricator
   
• James McEwen, Automatic Surgical Tourniquet
   
• Otis Ray McIntire, STYROFOAM™ Brand Foam
   
• Malcom McLean, Containerized Shipping
   
• Jason McLellan, Structure-Based Vaccine Design
   
• Harold McMaster, Tempered Glass
   
• Carver Mead, Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)
   
• Ottmar Mergenthaler, Linotype Composing Machine
   
• Ralph Merkle, Public-Key Cryptography
   
• Robert M. Metcalfe, Ethernet
   
• Gary K. Michelson, Spinal Surgical Devices
   
• Thomas Midgley, Jr., Ethyl Gasoline
   
• Alexander Miles, Improved Method for Opening and Closing Elevators
   
• Hinda Miller, Sports Bra
   
• Lewis Miller, Improvement in Mowing Machines
   
• Irving Millman, Vaccine for Hepatitis B
   
• Michel Mirowski, Implantable Heart Defibrillator
   
• Sumita Mitra, Nanocomposite Dental Materials
   
• Dennis L. Moeller, Peripherals
   
• Bryan B. Molloy, Prozac
   
• Luc Montagnier, HIV Virus Isolation and Diagnosis
   
• Robert A. Moog, Moog Synthesizer
   
• Gordon Moore, Method for Fabricating Transistors
   
• Ed Morgan, Tubular Steel Track Roller Coaster
   
• Garrett Morgan, The Gas Mask; Three-way Traffic Signal
   
• Samuel F. B. Morse, Telegraph
   
• Mick Mountz, Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
   
• Morton Mower, Implantable Heart Defibrillator
   
• Andrew J. Moyer, Method for Production of Penicillin
   
• Louis Marius Moyroud, Photo Composing Machine
   
• Joseph Muhler, Stannous Fluoride Toothpaste
   
• Kary B. Mullis, Polymerase Chain Reaction
   
• Eger V. Murphree, Fluid Catalytic Cracking
   
• William P. Murphy, Jr., Disposable Medical Trays
   
• George Washington Murray, Agricultural Machinery
   
• Thomas E. Murray, Electric Fuse Box
   
• Eadweard Muybridge, Stop-Action Photography 

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• Shuji Nakamura, Blue LED
   
• William Nebergall, Stannous Fluoride Toothpaste
   
• Walther H. Nernst, Metallic Filament Incandescent Lamp
   
• John Nicholson, Ibuprofen
   
• Rev. Julius Arthur Nieuwland, C.S.C., Synthetic Rubber
   
• Alfred Nobel, Dynamite
   
• Arthur Nobile, Prednisone
   
• John K. Northrop, Flying Wing Plane; All-Metal High-Wing Monocoque Airplane (Vega)
   
• Virginia Norwood, Multispectral Scanner
   
• Frederick Novello, Thiazide Diuretics (Chlorothiazide)
   
• Robert N. Noyce, Integrated Circuit 

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• Bernard Oliver, Pulse Code Modulation
   
• Kenneth H. Olsen, Magnetic Core Memory
   
• Miguel Angel Ondetti, Captopril
   
• Elisha Graves Otis, Elevator Brake
   
• Nicolaus August Otto, Gas-Motor Engine
   
• Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Nickel-Metal Hydride Battery
   
• Michael J. Owens, Glass-Shaping Machine 

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• Charles G. Page, High-Voltage Induction Coil
   
• William Painter, Bottle Cap
   
• David Pall, Leukocyte Reduction Filter
   
• Julio C. Palmaz, Intravascular Stent
   
• Louis W. Parker, Television Receiver
   
• Bradford Parkinson, Global Positioning System
   
• James A. Parsons Jr., Durimet 20 (Alloy 20) Stainless Steel Alloy
   
• John T. Parsons, Numerical Control
   
• Louis Pasteur, Pasteurization
   
• C. Kumar N. Patel, Carbon Dioxide Laser
   
• Charles Richard (C.R.) Patterson, Carriages
   
• Les Paul, Solid-Body Electric Guitar
   
• Arogyaswami Paulraj, MIMO Wireless Technology
   
• Gerald L. Pearson, Silicon Solar Cell
   
• Lester A. Pelton, Water Wheel
   
• Mary Engle Pennington, Food Preservation and Storage
   
• Radia Perlman, Robust Network Routing and Bridging
   
• Henry Phillips, Phillips Screw
   
• Thomas R. Pickering, Improved Velocipede
   
• John Pierce, Communications Satellite
   
• Gregory Pincus, Oral Contraceptive
   
• Charles J. Plank, Zeolite Catalyst for Catalytic Cracking
   
• Roy J. Plunkett, Teflon
   
• Mary Florence Potts, Cold-Handle Sad Iron
   
• Valdemar Poulsen, Magnetic Wire Recorder
   
• George M. Pullman, Pullman Car
   
• Michael Pupin, Loading Coil for Long Distance Telephony 

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• Jacqueline  Quinn, EZVI (Emulsified Zero-Valent Iron) 

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• Jacob Rabinow, Optical Character Reading
   
• Grote Reber, Radio Telescope
   
• Louis Renault, Automobiles
   
• Jesse Wilford Reno, Escalator
   
• Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Medical Devices for Low-Resource Settings
   
• Ken Richardson, Fluconazole
   
• Norbert Rillieux, Automated Sugar Refining
   
• Robert Rines, High-Resolution Radar and Sonar
   
• Dennis Ritchie, UNIX Operating System
   
• James Ritty, Mechanical Cash Register
   
• John Ritty, Mechanical Cash Register
   
• Ronald Rivest, RSA Cryptography
   
• John Roebling, Suspension Bridge
   
• John Raphael Rogers, Matrix for Linotype Machine
   
• Heinrich Rohrer, Scanning Tunneling Microscope
   
• Lubomyr Romankiw, Magnetic Thin-Film Storage Head
   
• Harold A. Rosen, Geosynchronous Communications Satellite
   
• Edward J. Rosinski, Zeolite Catalyst for Catalytic Cracking
   
• Benjamin A. Rubin, Pronged Vaccinating Needle 

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• Wallace Clement Sabine, Architectural Acoustics
   
• Augustine Sackett, Drywall
   
• Aran Safir, Iris Recognition System
   
• Lewis Hastings Sarett, Synthetic Cortisone
   
• Steven Sasson, Digital Camera
   
• Joseph Saxton, Measuring Instruments
   
• Richard Schatz, Palmaz-Schatz Coronary Stent
   
• Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Laser
   
• Klaus K. Schmiegel, Prozac
   
• Peter C. Schultz, Optical Fiber
   
• Edmund O. Schweitzer III, Digital Protective Relay
   
• Glenn T. Seaborg, Plutonium Isolation
   
• Charles D. Seeberger, Escalator
   
• Robert J. Seiwald, Isothiocyanate Compounds for Antigen Identification
   
• William Sellers, Improvement in Boring Mills
   
• Waldo L. Semon, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
   
• Gerhard M. Sessler, Electret Microphone
   
• Adi Shamir, RSA Cryptography
   
• Claude Shannon, Pulse Code Modulation
   
• Gary D. Sharp, Polarization-Control Technology
   
• John C. Sheehan, Synthesis of Penicillin
   
• Patsy O. Sherman, Scotchgard™ Textile Protector
   
• Joseph C. Shivers Jr., LYCRA^® Fiber (Spandex)
   
• William B. Shockley, Transistor
   
• Christopher Sholes, Typewriter
   
• Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, Valve for Steam Engines
   
• Igor I. Sikorsky, Helicopter
   
• John H. Silliker, Microbiological Food Safety and Testing
   
• Bernard Silver, First Optically Scanned Bar Code
   
• Spencer Silver, Post-it^® Notes
   
• Edward Sisler, 1-MCP for Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Freshness
   
• Samuel Slater, Spinning Machine
   
• Games Slayter, Fiberglass
   
• H. Gene Slottow, Plasma Display
   
• Floyd Smith, Modern Parachute
   
• George E. Smith, Charge-Coupled Device
   
• Polly Smith, Sports Bra
   
• Samuel Smith, Scotchgard™ Textile Protector
   
• Lanny Smoot, Theatrical Technologies and Special Effects
   
• James Murray Spangler, Portable Electric Vacuum Cleaner
   
• William J. Sparks, Butyl Rubber
   
• Percy L. Spencer, High-Efficiency Magnetron
   
• Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Gyroscopic Compass
   
• Frank J. Sprague, Electric Street Car
   
• James Sprague, Thiazide Diuretics (Chlorothiazide)
   
• Rangaswamy Srinivasan, Excimer Laser Surgery
   
• William Stanley, Jr., Induction Coil
   
• Gary K. Starkweather, Laser Printer
   
• Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Alternating Current
   
• Leo H. Sternbach, Benzodiazepines
   
• John Stevens, Steam-Powered Transportation
   
• Louis Stevens, Data Storage Machine
   
• George R. Stibitz, Digital Computer
   
• Alice Stoll, Fire-Resistant Fibers and Fabrics
   
• S. Donald Stookey, Glass Ceramics
   
• Harriet W. R. Strong, Water Storage and Flood Control
   
• Herbert M. Strong, Diamond Synthesis
   
• Almon Brown Strowger, Automatic Telephone-Dialing System
   
• Eugene Sullivan, PYREX^® Brand Cookware
   
• Gideon Sundback, Modern Zipper
   
• Ivan E. Sutherland, Display Windowing by Clipping
   
• Eric Swanson, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
   
• Ambrose Swasey, Telescope
   
• Leo Szilard, Nuclear Fission 

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• Donalee L. Tabern, Pentothal / Anesthesia
   
• Charles Sumner Tainter, Sound-Recording Instruments
   
• Jokichi Takamine, Adrenaline (Adrenalin^®)
   
• Esther Sans Takeuchi, Lithium/Silver Vanadium Oxide (Li/SVO) Battery Technology in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs)
   
• Pushkar Tandon, Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
   
• Ching Wan Tang, Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED)
   
• Welton I. Taylor, Microbiological Food Safety and Testing
   
• Gordon Teal, Silicon Transistor
   
• Ralph Teetor, Cruise Control
   
• Maria Telkes, Solar Thermal Storage Systems
   
• Paul Terasaki, Tissue Typing for Organ Transplants; Terasaki Tray
   
• Eli Terry, Clock
   
• Nikola Tesla, Electro-Magnetic Motor
   
• John H. Thomas, Fiberglass
   
• Robert M. Thomas, Butyl Rubber
   
• David A. Thompson, Magnetic Thin-Film Storage Head
   
• Ken Thompson, UNIX Operating System
   
• Elihu Thomson, Electric Arc Lamp
   
• Louis Comfort Tiffany, Glass Tile, Mosaic
   
• Henry Timken, Tapered Roller Bearings
   
• Max Tishler, Synthesis of Vitamin B2 and Sulfaquinoxaline (Antibiotic)
   
• Charles Hard Townes, Maser
   
• James Truchard, Virtual Instrumentation - LabVIEW™
   
• Roger Tsien, Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) Variants 
   
• Charles W. Tyson, Fluid Catalytic Cracking 

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U

• William E. Upjohn, Dissolvable Pills

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V

• Theophilus Van Kannel, Revolving Door
   
• Steven Van Slyke, Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED)
   
• Andrew J. Viterbi, CDMA Technology
   
• Ernest H. Volwiler, Pentothal / Anesthesia
   
• Luis von Ahn, reCAPTCHA
   
• Theodore von Karman, Aerodynamic Structure for Planes and Wings
   
• Hans J.P. von Ohain, Turbojet Engine
   
• Carl Auer von Welsbach, Incandescent Device
   
• Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Rigid Airship 

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• Selman Waksman, Streptomycin
   
• David Walt, Microwell Arrays
   
• An Wang, Magnetic Core Memory
   
• Frank Wanlass, Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS)
   
• William J. Warner, Digital Nonlinear Editing System
   
• Lewis Edson Waterman, Fountain Pen
   
• Thomas A. Watson, Improvements to the Telephone
   
• Drew Weissman, Modified mRNA Technology Used in COVID-19 Vaccines
   
• Robert Wentorf, Jr., Diamond Synthesis
   
• James E. West, Electret Microphone
   
• George Westinghouse, Jr., Air Brake System
   
• Edward Weston, Portable Voltmeter
   
• Squire Whipple, Iron Truss Bridge
   
• Richard Whitcomb, Supercritical Wing
   
• Rollin Henry White, Steam Generator; Controlled Differential
   
• Willis Whitfield, Clean Room
   
• Eli Whitney, Cotton Gin
   
• Frank Whittle, Jet Engine
   
• Otto Wichterle, Soft Contact Lens
   
• Robert Widlar, Linear Integrated Circuits
   
• Stephen Wilcox, Jr., Improvement in Steam Generators
   
• Robert R. Williams, Vitamin Synthesis
   
• Sam B. Williams, Small Fan-Jet Engine
   
• Robert H. Willson, Plasma Display
   
• Field Winslow, Polymer Cable Sheath
   
• Alexander Winton, Automobile, Bicycle, and Diesel Applications
   
• N. Joseph Woodland, First Optically Scanned Bar Code
   
• Granville Woods, Railway Telegraphy
   
• Steve Wozniak, Personal Computer
   
• Orville Wright, Airplane
   
• Wilbur Wright, Airplane
   
• Margaret Wu, Synthetic Lubricants
   
• Peter Wurman, Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
   
• James J. Wynne, Excimer Laser Surgery

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• Linus Yale, Jr., Door Lock
   
• Ioannis V. Yannas, Regenerated Skin

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Z

• Alejandro Zaffaroni, Bandage for Administering Drugs
   
• Frank J. Zamboni, Ice Rink Resurfacing Machine
   
• Xiaowei Zhuang, Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM)
   
• Vladimir Zworykin, Cathode-Ray Tube
   
• Frank Zybach, Center-Pivot Irrigation

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