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Thomas J. Fogarty
Embolectomy Catheter
In 1969, Thomas Fogarty received a patent for his Fogarty® balloon embolectomy catheter, which has since become an industry standard. The device…
George Crompton
Loom
Over his lifetime, George Crompton's inventive prowess revolutionized the textile industry.
Born in Lancashire, England, Crompton moved to the U.S.…
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…
Robert Rines
High-Resolution Radar and Sonar
Robert H. Rines' contributions to radar and sonar began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Radiation Laboratory with modulation…
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…
Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff
Microprocessor
Marcian "Ted" Hoff, Jr. led the team at Intel that defined the architecture of the first single-chip computer CPU, after which the CPU was designed…
James Sprague
Thiazide Diuretics (Chlorothiazide)
Biochemist James Sprague was a member of the Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories team that pioneered thiazide diuretics, the first class of…
Wilbur Wright
Airplane
Orville and Wilbur Wright, American inventors and aviation pioneers, achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight of an airplane. The…
Orville Wright
Airplane
Orville and Wilbur Wright, American inventors and aviation pioneers, achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled flight of an airplane. The…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Mary-Dell Chilton
Transgenic Plant
Mary-Dell Chilton is one of the founders of modern plant biotechnology. She led the research team that produced the first transgenic, or genetically…
Pamela Marrone
Biological Pest Control
Entrepreneur and entomologist Pamela Marrone has developed and brought to market effective, environmentally responsible, nature-based products for…