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Charles Richard Drew
Blood Plasma Preservation
One of the world’s most impactful surgeons, educators and innovators, Charles Drew invented a safe way to store, process and transport blood plasma.…
Marvin Camras
Magnetic Recording
Marvin Camras' inventions are used in modern magnetic tape and wire recorders, including high frequency bias, improved recording heads, wire and tape…
Claude Shannon
Pulse Code Modulation
Claude Shannon produced one of the great conceptual breakthroughs of his generation with the publication of his seminal work, "A Mathematical Theory…
Federico Faggin
Microprocessor
Federico Faggin joined the MOS group at Intel in 1970 as principal designer and leader of the team that designed the first microprocessor after…
Samuel F. B. Morse
Telegraph
Samuel F.B. Morse, once a portrait painter, turned to inventing to make his fortune. Morse had little training in electricity but realized that…
Otis Boykin
Electronic Resistors
Otis Boykin's innovations in electronic resistors enabled the more precise regulation of electrical current within a circuit. Variations of his…
Grote Reber
Radio Telescope
Grote Reber, inventor and pioneering radio astronomer, built the first substantial radio telescope dedicated to astronomy. Radio astronomy allows for…
Barney Graham
Structure-Based Vaccine Design
Immunologist and virologist Barney Graham and structural biologist Jason McLellan used structure-based vaccine design to stabilize and modify surface…
Herman Hollerith
Punch Card Tabulator
Herman Hollerith invented and developed a punch-card tabulation machine system that revolutionized statistical computation. Born in Buffalo, New York…
Alfred L. Loomis
LORAN
Attorney and investment banker Alfred Loomis is known as one of the great amateur scientists of the 20th century. Among his many innovations was…
Eger V. Murphree
Fluid Catalytic Cracking
Eger Murphree, former president of Exxon Research & Engineering Co. (ER&E), was one of four Exxon inventors who created the fluid catalytic…
Norbert Rillieux
Automated Sugar Refining
Considered one of the earliest chemical engineers, Norbert Rillieux revolutionized the sugar industry when he invented a refining process,…
Alois A. Langer
Implantable Heart Defibrillator
Alois A. Langer was the engineer on the medical team that invented the first automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). This device is…
Alfred Y. Cho
Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE)
Alfred Cho is considered "the father of molecular beam epitaxy," a process in which materials are layered atop one another atom-by-atom within a…
Allene Jeanes
Dextran Production; Xanthan Gum
Chemist Allene R. Jeanes received her organic chemistry doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1938, a time when few women were involved in the…
William P. Lear
Car Radio
Though his name is most often associated with corporate jet airplanes, William Lear earlier made his mark in car radios and by inventing the eight-…
Mary-Dell Chilton
Transgenic Plant
Mary-Dell Chilton was one of the founders of modern plant biotechnology. She led the research team that produced the first transgenic, or genetically…
Robert E. Kahn
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf created the architecture for the internet and collaborated to design the software known as the transmission control…
Margaret E. Knight
Machine for Making Flat-Bottom Paper Bags
Margaret Knight invented a machine that could automatically cut, fold and glue flat-bottomed paper bags. Her revolutionary invention enabled the mass…
Ken Thompson
UNIX Operating System
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bell Labs colleagues Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed UNIX, a multi-tasking, multi-user operating…
Robert H. Dennard
Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM)
Robert Heath Dennard invented one-transistor Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), which significantly increased computer memory density while…
Floyd Smith
Modern Parachute
The first working modern parachute was developed by trapeze artist turned aviator Floyd Smith. He became interested in parachutes after having…
George Edward Alcorn
X-ray Spectrometer
George Alcorn was a pioneering physicist and engineer noted for his aerospace and semiconductor inventions. His X-ray imaging spectrometer, patented…
Yvonne Brill
Electrothermal Hydrazine Resistojet
Yvonne Brill was a revolutionary innovator in rocket propulsion. Her most important contributions are advancements in rocket propulsion systems for…
Maurus Logan
Ty-Rap® Cable Ties
Electrical engineer Maurus Logan invented cable ties to address worker safety and wiring installation inefficiencies in the aviation industry. Now a…