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Alejandro Zaffaroni
Bandage for Administering Drugs
Alejandro Zaffaroni was a biotechnology innovator whose early work with controlled drug delivery methods, particularly his early concepts for…
King Camp Gillette
Safety Razor
King Camp Gillette conceived the idea for and developed the disposable safety razor. Gillette's invention changed men's personal care, making it more…
Leonard Adleman
RSA Cryptography
RSA cryptography is the world’s most widely used public-key cryptography method for securing communication on the internet. Instrumental to the…
William A. Goddard
Magnetic Disk Drive
William Goddard and John Lynott, together with Louis Stevens and a team of engineers, invented a unique magnetic disk storage device at the IBM Lab…
Willard S. Boyle
Charge-Coupled Device
Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith invented the charge-coupled device (CCD), a light-sensitive microchip that enabled dramatic advances in digital…
Roy J. Plunkett
Teflon
Chemist Roy J. Plunkett discovered tetrafluoroethylene resin while researching refrigerants at DuPont. Known by its trade name Teflon®, Plunkett's…
Linus Yale, Jr.
Door Lock
Linus Yale, Jr. made radical innovations in lock making that were the basis for the modern key and tumbler lock.
Yale was born in Salisbury, New…
Peter Wurman
Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
Peter Wurman, Mick Mountz and Raffaello D’Andrea created the Kiva system, a mobile robotic system for material handling in distribution centers that…
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Rigid Airship
Ferdinand von Zeppelin conceived and developed the first rigid dirigible, a lighter-than-air vehicle, known as the zeppelin.
Born in Konstantz,…
Cyrus McCormick
Mechanical Reaper
Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the mechanical reaper, which combined all the steps that earlier harvesting machines had performed separately. His time…
Maria Telkes
Solar Thermal Storage Systems
Maria Telkes was a highly respected innovator in solar energy. Throughout her career, she published widely on the topics of solar heating,…
Walter H. Brattain
Transistor
Physicist Walter Brattain shared the 1956 Nobel Prize with William Shockley and John Bardeen for jointly inventing the transistor, a device that…
Donald Alstadt
Chemlok® Rubber-to-Metal Adhesive System
Chemist Donald Alstadt invented Chemlok, a revolutionary rubber-to-metal adhesive system. Chemlok technology is widely used today in the automotive,…
William J. Warner
Digital Nonlinear Editing System
Television and film both must be edited to create a final program. Film editing always involved manually cutting and pasting strips of film, a simple…
Lynn Conway
Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI)
Lynn Conway and NIHF Inductee Carver Mead invented VLSI, or Very Large-Scale Integration, which transformed the global microelectronics industry.…
Daniel Lewin
Content Delivery Network
In the late 1990s, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate student Danny Lewin and MIT mathematics professor Tom Leighton recognized…
Emmanuelle Charpentier
CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing
Microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier and biochemist Jennifer Doudna co-invented the gene-editing system CRISPR-Cas9, a versatile technology for…
Raffaello D’Andrea
Mobile Robotic Material Handling for Order Fulfillment
Raffaello D’Andrea, Mick Mountz and Peter Wurman dramatically advanced warehouse order fulfillment for e-commerce by creating the Kiva system, which…
James Fujimoto
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
James Fujimoto, David Huang and Eric Swanson invented optical coherence tomography (OCT), a method for imaging subsurface structure in biological…
R. Rox Anderson
Laser Dermatology
Physician Rox Anderson developed laser-based treatments and procedures now commonly used in medical care to remove birthmarks, scars and other skin…
Reuben Trane
Lightweight Convector Radiator
Mechanical engineer Reuben Trane began making advancements to heating and cooling technologies early in the 20th century, providing reliable comfort…
James E. West
Electret Microphone
James West and Gerhard Sessler invented the electret microphone, which has advanced the sound industry and become the standard microphone used in…
Eric R. Fossum
CMOS Active Pixel Image Sensor Camera-on-a-Chip
Eric Fossum invented the CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) active pixel sensor camera-on-a-chip, the miniaturized camera technology that…
Feng Zhang
CRISPR Gene Editing
Feng Zhang has invented transformative technologies to improve human health, including pioneering the use of engineered CRISPR-Cas9 systems for…
Mary Engle Pennington
Food Preservation and Storage
Mary Engle Pennington was a pioneer in the safe preservation, handling, storage and transportation of perishable foods. A bacteriological chemist,…