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National Inventors Hall of Fame

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Founded 1973 by the USPTO and the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations. Their museum is in Akron, Ohio.

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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Edward G. Acheson
Inventor
9-Mar-1856 6-Jul-1931 Discovered carborundum
Ernst F. W. Alexanderson
Inventor
25-Jan-1878 14-May-1975 Developed radio and television at GE and RCA
Luis W. Alvarez
Physicist
13-Jun-1911 1-Sep-1988 Particle accelerator pioneer
Edwin H. Armstrong
Inventor
18-Dec-1890 31-Jan-1954 Inventor of FM radio
Leo Baekeland
Scientist
14-Nov-1863 23-Feb-1944 Inventor of Velox and Bakelite
Frederick G. Banting
Scientist
14-Nov-1891 21-Feb-1941 Discovered insulin
John Bardeen
Physicist
23-May-1908 30-Jan-1991 Co-Inventor of the transistor
Arnold Beckman
Inventor
10-Apr-1900 18-May-2004 Philanthropist who invented pH meter
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor
3-Mar-1847 2-Aug-1922 Inventor of the telephone
Henry Bessemer
Inventor
19-Jan-1813 15-Mar-1898 Bessemer process to manufacture steel
Gerd Binnig
Physicist
20-Jul-1947   Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope
Forrest Bird
Inventor
9-Jun-1921   Bird Universal Medical Respirator
Clarence Birdseye
Scientist
9-Dec-1886 7-Oct-1956 Frozen and dried food, wrapped in cellophane
László Bíró
Inventor
29-Sep-1899 24-Oct-1985 Ballpoint pen
Baruch S. Blumberg
Scientist
28-Jul-1925   Hepatitis B vaccine
Jacques E. Brandenberger
Chemist
19-Oct-1872 13-Jul-1954 Cellophane
Walter H. Brattain
Physicist
10-Feb-1902 13-Oct-1987 Co-Inventor of the transistor
Luther Burbank
Botanist
7-Mar-1849 11-Apr-1926 Botanist and plant breeder
Vannevar Bush
Scientist
11-Mar-1890 30-Jun-1974 Started the National Science Foundation
Chester Carlson
Inventor
8-Feb-1906 19-Sep-1968 Invented Xerography
Wallace Hume Carothers
Chemist
27-Apr-1896 29-Apr-1937 Inventor of Nylon
Willis Carrier
Inventor
26-Nov-1876 7-Oct-1950 Created the first air conditioning
George Washington Carver
Inventor
12-Jul-1864 5-Jan-1943 God's gift to peanut farmers
Josephine Cochrane
Inventor
8-Mar-1839 3-Aug-1913 Invented the dishwasher
William D. Coolidge
Physicist
23-Oct-1873 4-Feb-1975 Tungsten filaments and Coolidge tubes
Harry Coover
Chemist
6-Mar-1919   Invented Super Glue
Frederick G. Cottrell
Inventor
10-Jan-1877 16-Nov-1948 Electrostatic precipitator
Seymour Cray
Inventor
28-Sep-1925 5-Oct-1996 Inventor of Cray supercomputers
Glenn Curtiss
Aviator
21-May-1878 23-Jul-1930 American aviation pioneer
Rudolf Diesel
Inventor
18-Mar-1858 30-Sep-1913 Inventor of the Diesel Engine
Walt Disney
Business
5-Dec-1901 15-Dec-1966 Founder of Disney empire
Ray Milton Dolby
Inventor
18-Jan-1933   Inventor of Dolby Stereo
Herbert Dow
Business
26-Feb-1866 15-Oct-1930 Founder of Dow Chemical
George Eastman
Inventor
12-Jul-1854 14-Mar-1932 Inventor of the Kodak camera
Thomas Edison
Inventor
11-Feb-1847 18-Oct-1931 Invented the light bulb
Gertrude B. Elion
Scientist
23-Jan-1918 21-Feb-1999 Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS
Doug Engelbart
Scientist
30-Jan-1925   Inventor of computer mouse
Max Faget
Scientist
26-Aug-1921 9-Oct-2004 Designer of NASA spacecraft
Moses Farmer
Inventor
9-Feb-1820 25-May-1893 Invented the fire alarm, electric trolley
Philo Farnsworth
Inventor
19-Aug-1906 11-Mar-1971 Inventor of electronic television
Enrico Fermi
Physicist
29-Sep-1901 29-Nov-1954 First controlled nuclear chain reaction
Henry Ford
Business
30-Jul-1863 7-Apr-1947 Founder of Ford Motors
Robert C. Gallo
Doctor
23-Mar-1937   Identified first retroviruses in humans
Ivan Getting
Inventor
18-Jan-1912 11-Oct-2003 Global Positioning System
Robert Goddard
Scientist
5-Oct-1882 10-Aug-1945 Father of modern rocketry
Charles Goodyear
Inventor
29-Dec-1800 1-Jul-1860 Invented rubber vulcanization process
Gordon Gould
Physicist
17-Jul-1920 16-Sep-2005 Invented the laser
Wilson Greatbatch
Inventor
6-Sep-1919   Implantable pacemaker
William Hewlett
Business
20-May-1913 12-Jan-2001 Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard
Felix Hoffmann
Chemist
21-Jan-1868 8-Feb-1946 Aspirin and heroin
Herman Hollerith
Inventor
29-Feb-1860 17-Nov-1929 Invented the punchcard
Alexander Lyman Holley
Engineer
20-Jul-1832 29-Jan-1882 Designed steel foundries
Nick Holonyak
Physicist
3-Nov-1928   Light-emitting diodes
Leroy Hood
Biologist
10-Oct-1938   Systems biology and Human Genome Project
Elias Howe
Inventor
9-Jul-1819 3-Oct-1867 Inventor of the sewing machine
Percy Julian
Chemist
11-Apr-1899 19-Apr-1975 Physostigmine and cortisone
Robert E. Kahn
Scientist
23-Dec-1938   Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol
Dean Kamen
Inventor
5-Apr-1951   Segway pedestrian vehicle
Theodore von Kármán
Mathematician
11-May-1881 7-May-1963 Kármán vortices
Charles F. Kettering
Inventor
29-Aug-1876 25-Nov-1958 Invented the electric starter
Jack S. Kilby
Inventor
8-Nov-1923 20-Jun-2005 Electrical engineering pioneer
Albert Kingsbury
Engineer
23-Dec-1863 28-Jul-1943 Kingsbury thrust bearing
Ray Kurzweil
Inventor
12-Feb-1948   Age of Spiritual Machines
Stephanie Kwolek
Chemist
31-Jul-1923   Invented Kevlar
Edwin H. Land
Inventor
7-May-1909 1-Mar-1991 Polaroid Land Camera
Paul C. Lauterbur
Scientist
6-May-1929 27-Mar-2007 Magnetic resonance imaging
Guglielmo Marconi
Scientist
25-Apr-1874 20-Jul-1937 Inventor of the radio
John L. Mason
Inventor
1832 26-Feb-1902 Invented the screw-neck jar
Alfred Nobel
Inventor
21-Oct-1833 10-Dec-1896 Dynamite inventor, established Nobel Prize
Robert Noyce
Inventor
12-Dec-1927 3-Jun-1990 Co-Inventor, integrated circuit
Barney Oliver
Astronomer
1916 23-Nov-1995 SETI researcher
Elisha Otis
Inventor
3-Aug-1811 8-Apr-1861 Invented the safety elevator
Bradford W. Parkinson
Engineer
16-Feb-1935   Global Positioning System
Louis Pasteur
Chemist
27-Dec-1822 28-Sep-1895 Discovered process of pasteurization
Les Paul
Guitarist
9-Jun-1915   Electric guitar/multitrack recording pioneer
Gregory Pincus
Scientist
9-Apr-1903 22-Aug-1967 Inventor of oral contraceptives
Heinrich Rohrer
Physicist
6-Jun-1933   Co-Inventor, scanning tunneling microscope
Claude Shannon
Scientist
30-Apr-1916 24-Feb-2001 Pioneer in information theory
William Shockley
Physicist
13-Feb-1910 12-Aug-1989 Co-Inventor of the transistor
Christopher Sholes
Inventor
14-Feb-1819 17-Feb-1890 Typewriter inventor, QWERTY keyboard
Igor Sikorsky
Business
25-May-1889 26-Oct-1972 Helicopter magnate
James Murray Spangler
Inventor
20-Nov-1848 22-Jan-1915 Invented the upright vacuum cleaner
Percy Spencer
Scientist
19-Jul-1894 8-Sep-1970 Invented the microwave oven
Elmer Sperry
Inventor
12-Oct-1860 10-Jun-1930 Gyroscopic compass
Ambrose Swasey
Business
19-Dec-1846 15-Jun-1937 Warner and Swasey Company and Observatory
Leo Szilard
Physicist
11-Feb-1898 30-May-1964 Nuclear chain reaction
Nikola Tesla
Inventor
9-Jul-1856 7-Jan-1943 Invented alternating current
Eli Whitney
Inventor
8-Dec-1765 8-Jan-1825 Inventor of the cotton gin
Otto Wichterle
Chemist
27-Oct-1913 18-Aug-1998 Invented soft contact lenses
Steve Wozniak
Computer Programmer
11-Aug-1950   Co-Founder of Apple Computer
Orville Wright
Aviator
19-Aug-1871 30-Jan-1948 Co-Inventor of the airplane
Wilbur Wright
Aviator
16-Apr-1867 30-May-1912 Co-Inventor of the airplane


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