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Rebecca Richards-Kortum

Rebecca Richards-Kortum

Medical Devices for Low-Resource Settings

Rebecca Richards-Kortum develops low-cost, high-performance medical technologies for poor communities where standard medical equipment isn't an…
Inducted in: 2019
Born:
U.S. Patent No.: 7,365,844

Patsy O. Sherman

Scotchgard™ Textile Protector

Chemist Patsy Sherman and colleague Sam Smith were working at 3M Company when they created Scotchgard™. Scotchgard went on to become one of the most…
Inducted in: 2001
Born:
U.S. Patent No.: 3,574,791
Died:
National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee Polly Smith

Polly Smith

Sports Bra

Polly Smith, Lisa Lindahl and Hinda Miller invented the sports bra. Commercialized as the Jogbra®, their invention enabled greater participation in…
Inducted in: 2022
Born:
U.S. Patent No.: 4,174,717
Marjorie Stewart Joyner

Marjorie Stewart Joyner

Permanent Wave Machine

Marjorie Stewart Joyner invented a permanent wave machine and was a leading figure in the beauty industry as a beautician, salon owner, instructor…
Inducted in: 2023
Born:
U.S. Patent No.: 1,693,515
Died:
Alice Stoll

Alice Stoll

Fire-Resistant Fibers and Fabrics

Alice Stoll, a research physiologist and pioneer in aerospace medicine, led the development of fire-resistant fabrics in the 1960s. Her work made it…
Inducted in: 2024
Born:
U.S. Patent No.: 3,148,531
Died:
Military Service: U.S. Navy
Harriet W. R. Strong

Harriet W.R. Strong

Water Storage and Flood Control

In 1887, Harriet Strong patented her invention of a system of dams and reservoirs for water storage and flood control. Her system was a series of…
Inducted in: 2016
Born:
U.S. Patent No.: 374,378
Died:
Esther Sans Takeuchi

Esther Sans Takeuchi

Lithium/Silver Vanadium Oxide (Li/SVO) Battery Technology in Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs)

Energy storage expert Esther Sans Takeuchi led efforts to invent and refine the lithium/silver vanadium oxide (Li/SVO) battery technology used to…
Inducted in: 2011
Born:
U.S. Patent Nos.: 5,389,472, 6,221,534

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,…
Inducted in: 2012
Born:
U.S. Patent No.: 3,986,969
Died:
Margaret Wu

Margaret Wu

Synthetic Lubricants

Industrial chemist Margaret Wu revolutionized the field of synthetic lubricants. Her work has changed how automobile and industrial lubricants are…
Inducted in: 2022
Born:
U.S. Patent Nos.: 4,827,064, 4,827,073
Xiaowei Zhuang

Xiaowei Zhuang

Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM)

Xiaowei Zhuang introduced one of the most widely used methods of super-resolution imaging: stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy, or STORM.…
Inducted in: 2024
Born:
U.S. Patent No.: 7,776,613