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Richard Schatz
Palmaz-Schatz Coronary Stent
Cardiologist Richard Schatz collaborated with fellow National Inventors Hall of Fame® Inductee Julio Palmaz to invent a vascular stent suitable for…
Andrea Goldsmith
Adaptive Beamforming for Multi-Antenna Wi-Fi
Andrea Goldsmith created technical innovations including adaptive beamforming for multi-antenna Wi-Fi. Her work has shaped the performance of…
Robert Bryant
LaRC-SI (Langley Research Center-Soluble Imide)
NASA chemist Robert Bryant developed a polymer called LaRC-SI (Langley Research Center-Soluble Imide), taking it from laboratory discovery to…
Joseph Lee
Bread Machines
Joseph Lee was a pioneer in the automation of bread and breadcrumb making in the late 1800s. He invented machines for use in the hospitality industry…
Jason McLellan
Structure-Based Vaccine Design
Structural biologist Jason McLellan and immunologist Barney Graham used structure-based vaccine design to stabilize and modify surface proteins of…
James Allison
Immune Checkpoint Blockade Therapy
James Allison invented immune checkpoint blockade therapy. His pioneering work brought immunotherapy into mainstream medicine as an effective…
Elisha Gray
Telegraphic Instruments
Elisha Gray made many contributions to the telegraph and telephone industries, including his invention of the telautograph, a forerunner of the…
Asad Madni
MEMS Gyroscope for Aerospace and Automotive Safety
Asad Madni led the development and commercialization of the MEMS gyroscope for aerospace and automotive safety. Commercialized as the GyroChip and…
Pamela Marrone
Biological Pest Control
Entrepreneur and entomologist Pamela Marrone has developed and brought to market effective, environmentally responsible, nature-based products for…
Jaap C. Haartsen
Bluetooth® Wireless Technology
Jaap Haartsen led the invention of Bluetooth® wireless technology. Used worldwide, Bluetooth allows a seemingly endless array of devices to…
Mildred Dresselhaus
Superlattice Structures for Thermoelectric Devices
Renowned physicist Mildred Dresselhaus led pioneering work on carbon and its thermal and electrical properties. Known as the "Queen of Carbon Science…
Howard Aiken
Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Mark I)
With the Mark I calculator, Howard Aiken showed that a computer could provide high-powered, speedy mathematical solutions to many problems. Aiken…
Martin (John) M. Atalla
MOSFET
John Atalla is one of the inventors of the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), the most widely employed type of integrated…
Alpheus Babcock
Cast-Iron Piano Frame
The dominance of the American piano industry rested on a key innovation patented by piano builder Alpheus Babcock in 1825. Babcock was the first to…
Shankar Balasubramanian
Sequencing-by-Synthesis (SBS)
Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman co-invented Sequencing-by-Synthesis (SBS), a Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS) method that made…
Robert Banks
High-Density Polyethylene and Polypropylene Plastics
Robert Banks and fellow research chemist Paul Hogan were working for Phillips Petroleum in 1951 when they invented crystalline polypropylene and high…
Arnold O. Beckman
pH Meter
Arnold O. Beckman invented a pH meter and the quartz spectrophotometer, an instrument which pioneered automatic chemical analysis. Born in Cullom,…
Alexander Graham Bell
Improvement in Telegraphy
Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone grew out of his research on improving the telegraph. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, he spent one…
Ruth Benerito
Wrinkle-Free Cotton
Ruth Rogan Benerito was a visionary chemist and inventor who made important contributions in the textile, wood and paper industries. She is most…
Emile Berliner
Gramophone / Microphone
Emile Berliner invented the microphone that became part of the first Bell telephones, and his gramophone was the first record player to use disks.…
Charles Best
Isolated, Purified Insulin
The youngest member of the team that provided life-saving treatment to diabetics started his historic work immediately after earning his bachelor's…
Erastus B. Bigelow
Power Loom
Over the course of several decades, Erastus Bigelow invented a series of faster, more capable power looms that made rugs and carpets more affordable…
Laszlo Josef Biro
Ballpoint Pen
Laszlo Biro invented the modern ballpoint pen.
A native of Budapest, Hungary, Biro was working as a journalist when he noticed a fundamental…
Helen Blanchard
Zig-Zag Sewing Machine
Helen Blanchard invented the zig-zag sewing machine. By making significant improvements to existing machine designs, Blanchard’s work enabled the…
Charles F. Brush
Arc Lamp for Street Lighting
Charles Brush perfected the system of electric arc lighting, making it practical for commercial use. He installed the first electric light system in…