New Inductees

Meet the 2020 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees

2020 Living Inductees
R. Rox Anderson

Laser Dermatology

Sylvia Blankenship

1-MCP for Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Freshness
Dana Bookbinder

Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
Raffaello D’Andrea

Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
Ming-Jun Li

Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
Lisa Lindahl

Sports Bra
James McEwen

Automatic Surgical Tourniquet
Hinda Miller

Sports Bra
Mick Mountz

Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
Edward Sisler

1-MCP for Fruit, Vegetable and Flower Freshness
Polly Smith

Sports Bra
Pushkar Tandon

Bend-Insensitive Optical Fiber
Margaret Wu

Synthetic Lubricants
Peter Wurman

Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment

2020 Historical Inductees
James Abercrombie

Blowout Preventer (BOP)
Stewart Adams

Ibuprofen
Evelyn Berezin

Computer Systems for Business Use
Edward W. Bullard

Hard Hat

Harry Cameron

Blowout Preventer (BOP)
John Nicholson

Ibuprofen
Floyd Smith

Modern Parachute
Frank Zybach

Center-Pivot Irrigation

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