List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees

The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology.

Display of inductees in the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Alexandria

The inventor list constitutes historic persons from the past three centuries in addition to living inductees.^[1] Nominees must hold a U.S. patent of significant contribution to the U.S. welfare, and which advances science and useful arts.^[2] John Fitch (anno 1743) was the earliest born inventor inducted into the NIHF.

Inductees

* Denotes inventor was also awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor

Year	Inductee	Birth year	Notable for	NIHF[3]
1973	Thomas Edison	1847	Electric lighting, motion pictures, phonograph	[4]
1974	Alexander Graham Bell	1847	Telephone	[5]
1974	Eli Whitney	1765	Cotton gin	[6]
1974	Walter Houser Brattain	1902	Transistor	[7]
1974	William Shockley	1910	Transistor	[8]
1974	John Bardeen*	1908	Transistor	[9]
1975	Nikola Tesla	1856	Induction motor	[10]
1975	Orville Wright	1871	Airplane	[11]
1975	Samuel Morse	1791	Telegraph	[12]
1975	Wilbur Wright	1867	Airplane	[13]
1975	William D. Coolidge	1873	X-ray tube	[14]
1975	Guglielmo Marconi*	1874	Radio	[15]
1976	Charles Martin Hall	1863	Aluminum production process	[16]
1976	Charles Goodyear	1800	Vulcanization of rubber	[17]
1976	Cyrus McCormick	1809	Mechanical reaper	[15]
1976	Enrico Fermi	1901	Nuclear fission	[18]
1976	Rudolf Diesel	1858	Internal-combustion engine	[19]
1976	Charles Hard Townes*	1915	Laser	[20]
1977	Charles Steinmetz	1865	Alternating current	[21]
1977	Edwin H. Land	1909	Polaroid	[22]
1977	George Eastman	1854	Photography	[23]
1977	Lee De Forest*	1873	Audion amplifier tube	[24]
1977	Vladimir K. Zworykin*	1888	Cathode-ray tube	[25]
1978	Carl Djerassi	1923	Oral contraceptives	[26]
1978	Leo Baekeland	1863	Bakelite	[27]
1978	Louis Pasteur	1822	Pasteurization	[28]
1978	Luis Walter Alvarez	1911	Radar, liquid hydrogen bubble chamber	[29]
1979	Charles J. Plank	1915	Catalytic cracking	[30]
1979	Edward J. Rosinski	1921	Catalytic cracking	[31]
1979	Robert H. Goddard	1882	Solid fuel rockets	[32]
1979	Jay Wright Forrester*	1918	Random access memory (RAM)	[33]
1980	Charles F. Kettering	1876	Electric ignition	[34]
1980	James Hillier	1915	Electron microscope	[35]
1980	Lewis Hastings Sarett	1917	Cortisone	[36]
1980	Edwin Howard Armstrong*	1890	FM radio	[37]
1981	Charles Stark Draper	1901	Stabilizing gyroscopic	[38]
1981	Chester Carlson	1906	Xerographic printing	[39]
1981	Harold Stephen Black	1898	Feedback amplifier	[40]
1981	Nicolaus Otto	1832	Otto cycle for internal combustion engine	[41]
1982	Ernest Lawrence	1901	Cyclotron	[42]
1982	Henry Ford	1863	Automobile	[43]
1982	Max Tishler	1906	Synthetic vitamins	[44]
1982	Ottmar Mergenthaler	1854	Linotype	[45]
1982	Jack Kilby*	1923	Integrated circuit	[46]
1983	Andrew Alford	1904	VHF omnidirectional range	[47]
1983	George Stibitz	1904	Digital computer	[48]
1983	Herbert Henry Dow	1866	Bromine extraction	[49]
1983	Ernst Alexanderson*	1878	High frequency alternator for radio	[50]
1983	Robert Noyce*	1927	Integrated circuit	[51]
1984	Philo Farnsworth	1906	Television	[52]
1984	Theodore Harold Maiman	1927	Laser	[53]
1984	Wallace Carothers	1896	Synthetic rubber, nylon	[54]
1984	William Merriam Burton	1865	Catalytic cracking	[55]
1985	Louis Marius Moyroud	1914	Photocomposing machine	[56]
1985	Marvin Camras	1916	Magnetic recording	[57]
1985	Rene Alphonse Higonnet	1902	Photocomposing machine	[58]
1985	Roy J. Plunkett	1910	Teflon	[59]
1985	Willem Johan Kolff	1911	Artificial heart	[60]
1985	Willis Carrier	1876	Air conditioner	[61]
1986	Donalee L. Tabern	1900	Pentothal	[62]
1986	Ernest H. Volwiler	1893	Pentothal	[63]
1986	Harold Eugene Edgerton	1903	Stroboscope photography	[64]
1986	Luther Burbank	1849	Plant breeding	[65]
1986	Wilson Greatbatch	1919	Heart pacemaker	[66]
1987	Andrew J. Moyer	1899	Penicillin	[67]
1987	Arnold Orville Beckman	1900	pH meter	[68]
1987	Igor Sikorsky	1889	Helicopter	[69]
1987	William Seward Burroughs I	1857	Adding machine	[70]
1988	An Wang	1920	Magnetic core memory	[71]
1988	Elisha Otis	1811	Elevator brake	[72]
1988	Frank B. Colton	1923	Oral contraceptives	[73]
1988	Louis W. Parker	1906	Television receiver	[74]
1989	George Westinghouse	1846	Air brake system	[75]
1989	Irving Langmuir	1881	Electric lighting	[76]
1989	John Deere	1804	Farm plow	[77]
1989	Raymond Vahan Damadian	1936	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)	[78]
1990	C. Robin Ganellin	1934	Cimetidine	[79]
1990	Charles Ginsburg	1920	Video tape recording	[80]
1990	Eugene Houdry	1892	Catalytic cracking	[81]
1990	George Washington Carver	1864	Peanut products	[82]
1990	Graham J. Durant	1934	Cimetidine	[83]
1990	Herman Hollerith	1860	Punch card tabulator	[84]
1990	John Colin Emmett	1939	Cimetidine	[85]
1990	Ken Olsen	1926	Magnetic core memory	[86]
1990	Percy Lavon Julian	1899	Cortisone synthesis	[87]
1990	Robert Ledley	1926	Whole-body CAT scan	[88]
1991	Donald F. Holmes	1910	Polyurethane	[89]
1991	Elmer Ambrose Sperry	1860	Gyroscopic compass	[90]
1991	Gertrude B. Elion	1918	Antileukemic drug	[91]
1991	Gordon Gould	1920	Optically pumped laser amplifier	[92]
1991	Leonard Greene	1918	Aircraft stall warning	[93]
1991	Robert R. Williams	1886	Vitamin synthesis	[94]
1991	Willard Harrison Bennett	1903	Mass spectrometry	[95]
1991	William Edward Hanford	1908	Polyurethane	[96]
1992	Benjamin Rubin	1917	Vaccine needle	[97]
1992	Charles F. Brannock	1903	Brannock device for foot measuring	[98]
1992	Frederick Gardner Cottrell	1877	Electrostatic precipitator	[99]
1992	Lloyd Conover	1923	Tetracycline	[100]
1992	William Redington Hewlett	1913	Audio oscillator	[101]
1993	Baruch Samuel Blumberg	1925	Vaccine for hepatitis B	[102]
1993	Bill Lear	1902	8-track system, car radio	[103]
1993	Donald Keck	1941	Optical fiber	[104]
1993	Irving Millman	1923	Vaccine for hepatitis B	[105]
1993	John T. Parsons	1913	Numerical control	[106]
1993	John Ericsson	1803	Screw propeller	[107]
1993	Peter C. Schultz	1942	Optical fiber	[108]
1993	Robert D. Maurer	1924	Optical fiber	[109]
1994	Elizabeth Lee Hazen	1885	Nystatin (antifungal / antibiotic)	[110]
1994	Emile Berliner	1851	Gramophone and microphone	[111]
1994	Gerd Binnig	1947	Scanning tunneling microscope	[112]
1994	Heinrich Rohrer	1933	Scanning tunneling microscope	[113]
1994	Rachel Fuller Brown	1898	Nystatin (antifungal / antibiotic)	[114]
1994	Robert H. Rines	1922	High resolution radar and sonar	[115]
1994	Robert N. Hall	1919	Magnetron	[116]
1995	Forrest Bird	1921	Respirator / Ventilator	[117]
1995	John C. Sheehan	1915	Structure and synthesis of penicillin	[118]
1995	Joseph H. Burckhalter	1912	Isothiocyanates	[119]
1995	Robert J. Seiwald	1925	Isothiocyanates	[120]
1995	Stephanie Kwolek	1923	Kevlar	[121]
1995	Waldo Semon	1898	Polyvinyl chloride	[122]
1995	William Stanley Jr.	1858	Induction coil	[123]
1996	Leó Szilárd	1898	Neutronic atomic reactor	[124]
1996	Arthur Leonard Schawlow	1921	Laser	[125]
1996	Edmund Germer	1901	Fluorescent lighting	[126]
1996	Federico Faggin	1941	Microprocessor, silicon-gate MOSFET transistor	[127]
1996	Julius Nieuwland	1878	Synthetic rubber	[128]
1996	Marcian Hoff	1937	Microprocessor	[129]
1996	Stanley Mazor	1941	Central processing unit (CPU)	[130]
1997	Dennis L. Moeller	1950	Computer peripherals	[131]
1997	Edward Goodrich Acheson	1856	Carborundum	[132]
1997	George Herman Babcock	1832	Water-tube boiler	[133]
1997	Mark Dean	1957	Computer peripherals	[134]
1997	Robert W. Bower	1936	Self-aligned-gate MOSFET transistor	[135]
1997	Seymour Cray	1925	Supercomputer	[136]
1997	Stephen Wilcox	1830	Water-tube boiler	[137]
1997	Robert H. Dennard*	1932	Dynamic random access memory (DRAM)	[138]
1998	Alfred Nobel	1833	Dynamite	[139]
1998	Douglas Engelbart	1925	Computer mouse	[140]
1998	Henry Timken	1831	Tapered roller ball bearings	[141]
1998	James Fergason	1934	Liquid crystal display	[142]
1998	Kary Mullis	1944	Polymerase chain reaction	[143]
1998	Semi Joseph Begun	1905	Magnetic recording	[144]
1999	Bryan Molloy	1939	Prozac	[145]
1999	Charlie Tyson	1905	Catalytic cracking	[146]
1999	Donald L. Campbell	1904	Catalytic cracking	[147]
1999	Eger V. Murphree	1898	Catalytic cracking	[148]
1999	George de Mestral	1907	Velcro	[149]
1999	Gerhard M. Sessler	1931	Electret microphone	[150]
1999	Homer Martin	1910	Catalytic cracking	[151]
1999	James West	1931	Electret microphone	[152]
1999	Klaus Schmiegel	1939	Prozac	[153]
1999	Percy Spencer	1894	Magnetron	[154]
2000	Alfred Free	1913	Glucose detection for diabetes	[155]
2000	Helen Murray Free	1923	Glucose detection for diabetes	[156]
2000	James Franklin Hyde	1903	Transparent silica	[157]
2000	Steve Wozniak	1950	Personal computer	[158]
2000	Walt Disney	1901	Multiplane camera	[159]
2000	William Justin Kroll	1889	Titanium	[160]
2000	Reginald Fessenden*	1866	AM radio	[161]
2001	Christopher Latham Sholes	1819	Typewriter	[162]
2001	Elijah McCoy	1844	Engine lubricator	[163]
2001	Herbert Boyer	1936	Genetic engineering	[164]
2001	J. Paul Hogan	1919	Polypropylene and HDPE	[165]
2001	Oliver Evans	1755	High-pressure steam engine	[166]
2001	Patsy O'Connell Sherman	1930	Scotchgard	[167]
2001	Robert Banks	1921	Polyethylene and polypropylene plastics	[168]
2001	Samuel Smith	1927	Scotchgard	[169]
2001	Stanley Norman Cohen	1935	Genetic engineering	[170]
2001	Thomas J. Fogarty	1934	Fogarty embolectomy catheter	[171]
2002	Alois Langer	1945	Defibrillator	[172]
2002	Felix Hoffmann	1868	Aspirin	[173]
2002	Henry Bessemer	1813	Bessemer process for steel production	[174]
2002	Irwin Lachman	1930	Catalytic converter	[175]
2002	J. Presper Eckert	1919	ENIAC	[176]
2002	James J. Wynne	1943	LASIK eye surgery	[177]
2002	John Mauchly	1907	ENIAC	[178]
2002	M. Stephen Heilman	1933	Defibrillator	[179]
2002	Michel Mirowski	1924	Defibrillator	[180]
2002	Morton Mower	1933	Implantable heart defibrillator	[181]
2002	Nils Bohlin	1920	Safety belt	[182]
2002	Rangaswamy Srinivasan	1929	LASIK eye surgery	[183]
2002	Raymond Kurzweil	1948	Optical character recognition	[184]
2002	Rodney Bagley	1934	Substrate for catalytic converters	[185]
2002	Ronald M. Lewis	1936	Catalytic converter	[186]
2002	Samuel E. Blum	1920	LASIK eye surgery	[187]
2003	Charles Kaman	1919	Innovations to helicopter	[188]
2003	Edwin Albert Link	1904	Link Trainer	[189]
2003	Frank Cepollina	1936	Satellite servicing techniques	[190]
2003	Frank Whittle	1907	Jet engine	[191]
2003	George Robert Carruthers	1939	Ultraviolet camera	[192]
2003	Glenn Curtiss	1878	Hydroplane	[193]
2003	Hans von Ohain	1911	Turbojet	[194]
2003	Harold Rosen	1926	Geosynchronous communications satellite	[195]
2003	John Knudsen Northrop	1895	Flying wing plane	[196]
2003	Leroy Grumman	1895	Retractable landing gear, folding wing	[197]
2003	Maxime Faget	1921	Space capsule design	[198]
2003	Paul Kollsman	1900	Altimeter	[199]
2003	Richard T. Whitcomb	1921	Supercritical wing	[200]
2003	Sam B. Williams	1921	Contributions to jet engine	[201]
2003	Theodore von Kármán	1881	Turbojet	[202]
2003	Thomas Midgley Jr.	1889	Ethyl gasoline, fluorocarbon refrigerants	[203]
2003	John R. Pierce*	1910	Communications satellite	[204]
2004	Bernard M. Oliver	1916	Pulse-code modulation	[205]
2004	Bradford Parkinson	1935	Global positioning system (GPS)	[206]
2004	Charles Best	1899	Isolation of insulin	[207]
2004	Charles Kelman	1930	Cataract surgery	[208]
2004	Edith M. Flanigen	1929	Molecular sieves	[209]
2004	Elias Howe	1819	Sewing machine	[210]
2004	Frederick Banting	1891	Isolated and purified insulin	[211]
2004	Harry Coover	1917	Superglue	[212]
2004	Ivan A. Getting	1912	Global Positioning System (GPS)	[213]
2004	James Collip	1892	Isolated and purified insulin	[214]
2004	John A. Roebling	1806	Suspension bridge	[215]
2004	John Heysham Gibbon	1903	Heart-lung machine	[216]
2004	Lloyd Hall	1894	Food preservation	[217]
2004	Luc Montagnier	1932	HIV isolation and antibody test	[218]
2004	Norbert Rillieux	1806	Refined sugar	[219]
2004	Ray Dolby	1933	Dolby noise reduction	[220]
2004	Robert Gallo	1937	HIV isolation	[221]
2004	Vannevar Bush	1890	Differential analyzer	[222]
2004	Wallace H. Coulter	1913	Coulter principle	[223]
2004	Claude Shannon*	1916	Pulse-code modulation	[224]
2005	Alec Jeffreys	1950	Genetic fingerprinting	[225]
2005	C. Donald Bateman	1932	Ground proximity warning system	[226]
2005	Clarence Birdseye	1886	Frozen food	[227]
2005	Dean Kamen	1951	Ambulatory infusion pump	[228]
2005	Garrett A. Morgan	1887	Gas mask, three-way traffic signal	[229]
2005	Glenn T. Seaborg	1912	Plutonium isolation	[230]
2005	Jacob Rabinow	1910	Optical character recognition	[231]
2005	Leo Sternbach	1908	Benzodiazepines	[232]
2005	Leopold Godowsky Jr.	1900	Kodachrome	[233]
2005	Leopold Mannes	1899	Kodachrome	[234]
2005	Les Paul	1915	Solid-body electric guitar	[235]
2005	Matthias W. Baldwin	1795	Steam locomotive	[236]
2005	Robert Gundlach	1926	Photocopier	[237]
2005	Selman Waksman	1888	Streptomycin	[238]
2006	Alexander Lyman Holley	1832	Steelmaking	[239]
2006	Alexander Winton	1860	Contributions to automobile, bicycle, and diesel engine	[240]
2006	Ali Javan	1926	Helium-neon laser	[241]
2006	Almon Brown Strowger	1839	Telephone dial	[242]
2006	Ambrose Swasey	1846	Improvements to telescope	[243]
2006	Andrew Jackson Beard	1849	Janney coupler for railroad cars	[244]
2006	Andrew Smith Hallidie	1836	Cable car	[245]
2006	Benjamin Holt	1849	Track-type tractor	[246]
2006	Beulah Louise Henry	1887	Ice cream freezer	[247]
2006	Birdsill Holly	1820	Fire hydrant	[248]
2006	Bob Kahn	1938	Internet Protocol (IP)	[249]
2006	Carl Bosch	1874	Haber–Bosch process for ammonia production	[250]
2006	Charles F. Brush	1849	Arc light for street lighting	[251]
2006	Charles Grafton Page	1812	High-voltage induction coil	[252]
2006	Charles Sumner Tainter	1854	Innovations in sound recording	[253]
2006	Dale Kleist	1909	Fiberglass	[254]
2006	Eckley Coxe	1839	Traveling grate furnace	[255]
2006	Edward A. Calahan	1838	Stock ticker	[256]
2006	Edward Weston	1850	Portable voltmeter	[257]
2006	Elihu Thomson	1853	Arc lamp	[258]
2006	Erastus Brigham Bigelow	1814	Powered loom	[259]
2006	Ferdinand von Zeppelin	1838	Rigid airship	[260]
2006	Frank J. Sprague	1857	Electric street car	[261]
2006	Fritz Haber	1868	Ammonia production process	[262]
2006	Gail Borden	1801	Process for condensed milk	[263]
2006	Games Slayter	1896	Fiberglass	[264]
2006	George E. Smith	1930	Charge-coupled device	[265]
2006	George Henry Corliss	1817	Improvements to steam engine	[266]
2006	George Hulett	1846	Loading and unloading machine	[267]
2006	George Pullman	1831	Pullman car	[268]
2006	Gideon Sundback	1880	Zipper	[269]
2006	Gottlieb Daimler	1834	Design of automobile and motorcycle engines	[270]
2006	Granville Woods	1856	Railroad telegraph	[271]
2006	Gregory Goodwin Pincus	1903	Oral contraceptives	[272]
2006	Harvey Samuel Firestone	1868	Pneumatic tire	[273]
2006	Helen Blanchard	1840	Innovations to sewing machine	[274]
2006	Herman Affel	1893	Coaxial cable	[275]
2006	Hiram Stevens Maxim	1840	Maxim gun, smokeless gunpowder	[276]
2006	Jacques E. Brandenberger	1872	Cellophane	[277]
2006	James M. Spangler	1848	Portable electric vacuum cleaner	[278]
2006	Jan Ernst Matzeliger	1852	Shoe lasting	[279]
2006	John Boyd Dunlop	1840	Pneumatic tire	[280]
2006	John H. Thomas	1907	Fiberglass	[281]
2006	John Harvey Kellogg	1852	Breakfast cereal	[282]
2006	John Landis Mason	1832	Mason jar	[283]
2006	John Wesley Hyatt	1837	Celluloid	[284]
2006	John Fitch	1743	Steamboat	[285]
2006	John Stevens	1749	Steam-powered transportation	[286]
2006	Joseph Glidden	1813	Barbed wire	[287]
2006	Joseph Saxton	1799	Measuring instruments	[288]
2006	Josephine Cochrane	1839	Dishwasher	[289]
2006	Julio Palmaz	1945	Intravascular stent	[290]
2006	Lester Allan Pelton	1829	Water wheel	[291]
2006	Lewis Howard Latimer	1848	Filament for electric light bulb	[292]
2006	Lewis Miller	1829	Combine harvester	[293]
2006	Lewis Waterman	1837	Fountain pen	[294]
2006	Linus Yale Jr.	1821	Cylinder lock	[295]
2006	Louis Renault	1877	Drum brake	[296]
2006	Margaret E. Knight	1838	Paper bag machine	[297]
2006	Martha Coston	1826	Signal flare used for ships	[298]
2006	Mary Dixon Kies	1752	Process for weaving straw	[299]
2006	Milton Bradley	1836	Game board	[300]
2006	Moses G. Farmer	1820	Electric fire alarm system	[301]
2006	Peter Cooper	1791	Steam locomotive	[302]
2006	Richard March Hoe	1812	Rotary printing press	[303]
2006	Robert S. Langer	1948	Drug delivery	[304]
2006	Robert W. Gore	1937	Gore-Tex	[305]
2006	Robert Fulton	1765	Steamboat	[306]
2006	Samuel Colt	1814	Colt revolver with interchangeable parts	[307]
2006	Seth Boyden	1788	Process for making malleable iron	[308]
2006	Simon Ingersoll	1818	Steam powered rock drill	[309]
2006	Thomas Blanchard	1788	Pattern lathe	[310]
2006	Vint Cerf	1943	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)	[311]
2006	Walter Hunt	1796	Safety pin	[312]
2006	Willard Boyle	1924	Charge-coupled device	[313]
2006	William E. Upjohn	1853	Tablet for delivering medicine	[314]
2006	William Painter	1838	Bottle cap	[315]
2006	Zénobe Gramme	1826	Direct-current dynamo	[316]
2006	Lloyd Espenschied*	1889	Coaxial cable	[317]
2007	László Bíró	1899	Ballpoint pen	[318]
2007	Albert Kingsbury	1863	Thrust bearing	[319]
2007	Alexander Miles	1838	Improving method of opening and closing elevator doors	[320]
2007	Alfred Einhorn	1856	Novocain	[321]
2007	Alpheus Babcock	1785	Cast iron piano frame	[322]
2007	Arthur Nobile	1920	Prednisone	[323]
2007	Auguste Lumière	1862	Cinématographe	[324]
2007	Charles Seeberger	1857	Escalator	[325]
2007	David Cushman	1939	Captopril	[326]
2007	Donald Davies	1924	Digital packet switching	[327]
2007	Eli Whitney Blake	1795	Rock crusher	[328]
2007	Eli Terry	1772	Innovations in clockmaking	[329]
2007	Elisha Gray	1835	Telegraph and telephone improvements	[330]
2007	Emmett Chappelle	1925	Bioluminescence	[331]
2007	Frank Zamboni	1901	Ice resurfacer	[332]
2007	Frederick Ellsworth Sickels	1819	Valve for steam engine	[333]
2007	Frederick McKinley Jones	1893	Refrigeration	[334]
2007	George Crompton	1829	Loom	[335]
2007	Georges Claude	1870	Neon lighting	[336]
2007	Godfrey Hounsfield	1919	CT scan	[337]
2007	James Bogardus	1800	Iron frame building	[338]
2007	Jesse W. Reno	1861	Escalator	[339]
2007	John E. Franz	1929	Roundup glyphosate herbicide	[340]
2007	John Philip Holland	1841	Submarine	[341]
2007	John Raphael Rogers	1856	Automated typesetting	[342]
2007	John Browning	1855	Breech-loading rifle	[343]
2007	John Lynott	1921	Hard drive	[344]
2007	Joshua Lionel Cowen	1877	Toy train	[345]
2007	Katharine Burr Blodgett	1898	Langmuir-Blodgett film	[346]
2007	King C. Gillette	1855	Safety razor	[347]
2007	L. L. Langstroth	1810	Beehive	[348]
2007	Leroy Hood	1938	DNA sequencer	[349]
2007	Louis Comfort Tiffany	1848	Stained glass	[350]
2007	Louis Lumière	1864	Cinématographe	[351]
2007	Maurice Hilleman	1919	Vaccines	[352]
2007	Michael Joseph Owens	1859	Bottle making machine	[353]
2007	Miguel Ondetti	1930	Captopril	[354]
2007	Ole Evinrude	1877	Outboard motor	[355]
2007	Oliver Lodge	1851	Wireless telegraphy	[356]
2007	Otto Wichterle	1913	Soft contact lens	[357]
2007	Paul Baran	1926	Digital packet switching	[358]
2007	Peter Carl Goldmark	1906	Long playing record	[359]
2007	Peter Mansfield	1933	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)	[360]
2007	Philip Drinker	1894	Iron lung	[361]
2007	Richard Gurley Drew	1899	Adhesive tape	[362]
2007	Samuel Leeds Allen	1841	Flexible flyer sled	[363]
2007	Samuel Slater	1768	Cotton mill, spinning machine	[364]
2007	Squire Whipple	1804	Iron truss bridge	[365]
2007	Theophilus Van Kannel	1841	Revolving door	[366]
2007	Thomas R. Pickering	1831	Velocipede	[367]
2007	Thomas Seavey Hall	1827	Railroad signal	[368]
2007	Wilhelm Maybach	1846	Carburetor and radiator	[369]
2007	William Goddard	1913	Hard drive and floppy disk	[370]
2007	William Sellers	1824	Improvement in machine tools	[371]
2007	Paul Lauterbur*	1929	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)	[372]
2007	Robert Metcalfe*	1946	Ethernet	[373]
2008	Amar Bose	1929	Audio feedback control	[374]
2008	Calvin Souther Fuller	1902	Silicon solar cell	[375]
2008	Clarence Johnson	1910	Fighter jet, afterburning means for Turbojet	[376]
2008	Daryl Chapin	1906	Silicon solar cell	[377]
2008	David Pall	1914	Filtration technology	[378]
2008	Erna Schneider Hoover	1926	Computerized telephone switching	[379]
2008	Gerald Pearson	1905	Silicon solar cell	[380]
2008	Harold McMaster	1916	Tempered glass	[381]
2008	John Charnley	1911	Acetabular socket	[382]
2008	Kenneth Richardson	1939	Fluconazole	[383]
2008	Louis Stevens	1925	Magnetic disk storage	[384]
2008	Malcom McLean	1913	Shipping containers	[385]
2008	Ray McIntire	1918	Styrofoam	[386]
2008	Robert Adler	1913	Television remote control	[387]
2008	Ruth R. Benerito	1916	Wrinkle-free cotton	[388]
2008	Willem Einthoven	1860	Electrocardiograph	[389]
2008	William P. Murphy Jr.	1923	Blood bag and disposable medical trays	[390]
2008	Amos E. Joel Jr.*	1918	Mobile communication system	[391]
2008	Nick Holonyak*	1928	visible light emitting diode	[392]
2009	Bob Widlar	1937	Linear integrated circuit	[393]
2009	Carver Mead	1934	Very large scale integration (VLSI)	[394]
2009	Dawon Kahng	1931	Electric field controlled semiconductor device, MOSFET transistor	[395]
2009	Dov Frohman	1939	Erasable programmable read only memory array (EPROM)	[396]
2009	Frank Wanlass	1933	Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS)	[397]
2009	Jean Hoerni	1924	Planar manufacturing process	[398]
2009	John MacDougall	1940	Ion implantation	[399]
2009	Ken Manchester	1925	Ion implantation	[400]
2009	Larry J. Hornbeck	1943	Spatial light modulator and method	[401]
2009	Mohamed M. Atalla	1924	MOSFET transistor, silicon semiconductor surface passivation, ATM PIN security system	[402]
2009	Ross Freeman	1948	Field-programmable gate array (FPGA)	[403]
2009	Alfred Y. Cho*	1937	Molecular beam epitaxy	[404]
2009	George H. Heilmeier*	1936	Electro-optic liquid crystal device	[405]
2009	Gordon Kidd Teal*	1907	Silicon transistor	[406]
2009	Gordon Moore*	1929	Semiconductor production	[407]
2010	Arthur Fry	1931	Post-it notes	[408]
2010	Émile Gagnan	1900	Aqua-lung diving equipment	[409]
2010	Field H. Winslow	1916	Polymer cable sheath	[410]
2010	Francis P. Bundy	1910	Diamond synthesis	[411]
2010	Herbert M. Strong	1908	Synthetic diamond	[412]
2010	Jacques Cousteau	1910	Diving unit	[413]
2010	Judah Folkman	1933	Angiogenesis inhibition	[414]
2010	Ralph Baer	1922	Video game console	[415]
2010	Robert H. Wentorf Jr.	1926	Synthetic diamond	[416]
2010	Roger L. Easton	1921	TIMATION satellite navigation system	[417]
2010	S. Donald Stookey	1915	Glass ceramics	[418]
2010	Spencer Silver	1941	Post-it notes	[419]
2010	Tracy Hall	1919	Synthetic diamond	[420]
2010	Vincent Lanza	1922	Polymer cable sheath	[421]
2010	Walter Lincoln Hawkins	1911	Polymer cable sheath	[422]
2010	Yvonne Brill	1924	Electrothermal hydrazine resistojet	[423]
2011	Albert Dick	1856	Duplicating machine	[424]
2011	Bernard Silver	1924	First optically scanned barcode	[425]
2011	Carl Auer von Welsbach	1858	Improvements to gas lighting	[426]
2011	Carleton Ellis	1876	Margarine	[427]
2011	Charles Francis Jenkins	1867	Movie projector	[428]
2011	Clarence Kemp	c. 1860	Solar water heater	[429]
2011	Eadweard Muybridge	1830	Stop action photography	[430]
2011	Edwin Binney	1866	Carbon black manufacturing	[431]
2011	Eric Fossum	1957	CMOS active pixel image sensor camera-on-a-chip	[432]
2011	Esther Sans Takeuchi	1953	Lithium/silver-vanadium oxide battery	[433]
2011	Eugene Sullivan	1872	Borosilicate glass	[434]
2011	François Hennebique	1842	Reinforced concrete construction	[435]
2011	Frederic Eugene Ives	1856	Color photography	[436]
2011	Gary K. Michelson	1949	Spinal surgical devices	[437]
2011	George Ashley Campbell	1870	Loading coil	[438]
2011	George Devol	1912	Industrial robot	[439]
2011	Hannibal Goodwin	1822	Transparent flexible nitrocellulose	[440]
2011	Henry F. Phillips	1890	Phillips screw	[441]
2011	Henry M. Leland	1843	Interchangeable parts for automobiles	[442]
2011	James Ritty	1836	Cash register	[443]
2011	John Hays Hammond Jr.	1888	Radio control	[444]
2011	John Ritty	1834	Cash register	[445]
2011	Martin Hellman	1945	Public-key cryptography	[446]
2011	Mary Anderson	1866	Windshield wiper	[447]
2011	Mihajlo Pupin	1858	Loading coil	[448]
2011	Norman Joseph Woodland	1921	First optically scanned barcode	[449]
2011	Peter Cooper Hewitt	1861	Mercury-vapor lamp	[450]
2011	Ralph Merkle	1952	Public-key cryptography	[451]
2011	Rollin H. White	1872	Flash boiler for generating steam-controlled differential steering	[452]
2011	Stanley Macomber	1887	Open web steel joist	[453]
2011	Steven Sasson	1950	Digital camera	[454]
2011	Thomas A. Watson	1854	Improvements to telephone	[455]
2011	Thomas E. Murray	1860	Early power generation	[456]
2011	Thomas Armat	1866	Movie projector	[457]
2011	Valdemar Poulsen	1869	Magnetic wire recorder	[458]
2011	Wallace Clement Sabine	1868	Architectural acoustics	[459]
2011	Walther Nernst	1864	Metallic filament incandescent lamp	[460]
2011	Warren Marrison	1896	Quartz clock	[461]
2011	Whitfield Diffie	1944	Public-key cryptography	[462]
2012	Akira Endo	1933	Mevastatin	[463]
2012	Alejandro Zaffaroni	1923	Drug delivery systems	[464]
2012	Barbara Liskov	1939	Programming Languages and System Design	[465]
2012	David A. Thompson	1940	Thin film magnetic heads	[466]
2012	Gary Starkweather	1938	Laser printer	[467]
2012	Lubomyr Romankiw	1931	Thin film magnetic heads	[468]
2012	Steve Jobs	1955	Personal computer, mobile phone, animated movie, digital publishing	[469]
2012	C. Kumar N. Patel*	1938	Carbon dioxide laser	[470]
2012	Dennis Gabor*	1900	Electron holography	[471]
2012	Mária Telkes*	1900	Solar thermal storage system	[472]
2013	Alfred Loomis	1887	Long range navigation system (LORAN)	[473]
2013	Andrew Viterbi	1935	Code-division multiple access (CDMA)	[474]
2013	Aran Safir	1926	Iris recognition algorithm	[475]
2013	Arthur Ashkin	1922	Optical trapping	[476]
2013	Donald Bitzer	1934	Plasma display	[477]
2013	Garrett Brown	1942	Steadicam camera stabilizer	[478]
2013	Grote Reber	1911	Radio telescope	[479]
2013	H. Gene Slottow	1921	Plasma display	[480]
2013	Irwin M. Jacobs	1933	Code-division multiple access (CDMA)	[481]
2013	John Birden	1918	Radioisotope thermoelectric generator	[482]
2013	John Daugman	1954	Iris recognition algorithm	[483]
2013	Joseph Lechleider	1933	Digital subscriber line (DSL)	[484]
2013	Kenneth Jordan	1921	Radioisotope thermoelectric generator	[485]
2013	Leonard Flom	1927	Iris recognition algorithm	[486]
2013	Robert H. Willson	1936	Plasma display	[487]
2013	Robert Moog	1934	Moog synthesizer	[488]
2013	Samuel W. Alderson	1914	Crash test dummy	[489]
2014	Ashok Gadgil	1950	Water disinfection	[490]
2014	Benjamin Durfee	1897	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	[491]
2014	Bill Bowerman	1911	Modern athletic shoe	[492]
2014	Chuck Hull	1939	Stereolithography	[493]
2014	Clair Lake	1888	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	[494]
2014	David Crosthwait	1898	Heating and ventilation system	[495]
2014	Frances Arnold	1956	Evolution of enzymes	[496]
2014	Francis E. Hamilton	1898	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	[497]
2014	George Antheil	1900	Frequency-hopping spread spectrum	[498]
2014	Hedy Lamarr	1914	Frequency-hopping spread spectrum	[499]
2014	Howard Aiken	1900	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	[500]
2014	Mildred Dresselhaus	1930	Lattice structure	[501]
2014	Otis Boykin	1920	Electrical resistor	[502]
2014	Richard DiMarchi	1952	Insulin Lispro	[503]
2014	Willis Whitfield	1919	Clean room	[504]
2015	Charles R. Drew	1904	Surgical needle	[505]
2015	Edith Clarke	1883	Graphical calculator	[506]
2015	Gary D. Sharp	1962	Polarization-control technology	[507]
2015	George Edward Alcorn Jr.	1940	X-ray spectrometer	[508]
2015	Ioannis Yannas	1935	Artificial skin	[509]
2015	Jaap Haartsen	1963	Bluetooth wireless technology	[510]
2015	John F. Burke	1922	Artificial skin	[511]
2015	Kristina M. Johnson	1957	Polarization-control technology	[512]
2015	Marion Donovan	1917	Waterproof diaper cover	[513]
2015	Mary-Dell Chilton	1939	Transgenic plant	[514]
2015	Paul B. MacCready	1925	Gossamer Condor	[515]
2015	Shuji Nakamura	1954	Blue LED	[516]
2015	Stanford R. Ovshinsky	1922	Nickel-metal hydride battery	[517]
2015	Thomas Jennings	1791	Dry scouring	[518]
2016	Bantval Jayant Baliga	1948	Insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)	[519]
2016	Barrett Comiskey	1975	Electronic ink	[520]
2016	Harriet Strong	1844	Water storage and flood control	[521]
2016	Ivan Sutherland	1938	Display windowing by clipping	[522]
2016	JD Albert	1975	Electronic ink	[523]
2016	John Silliker	1922	Microbiological food safety and testing	[524]
2016	Joseph Jacobson	1965	Electronic ink	[525]
2016	Per-Ingvar Brånemark	1929	Dental implant	[526]
2016	Radia Perlman	1951	Network routing and bridging	[527]
2016	Robert M. Thomas	1908	Butyl rubber	[528]
2016	Roger Angel	1941	Telescope mirror cell	[529]
2016	Roger Bacon	1926	Carbon fibers	[530]
2016	Sheldon Kaplan	1939	Auto-injector	[531]
2016	Victor Lawrence	1945	Signal processing in telecommunications	[532]
2016	Welton Taylor	1919	Microbiological food safety and testing	[533]
2016	William Sparks	1905	Butyl rubber	[534]
2017	Allene Jeanes	1906	Dextran production; xanthan gum	[535]
2017	Augustine Sackett	1841	Drywall	[536]
2017	Beatrice Hicks	1919	Device for sensing gas density	[537]
2017	Carolyn Bertozzi	1966	Bioorthogonal Chemistry	[538]
2017	Daniel Lewin	1970	Content delivery network	[539]
2017	Don Arney	1947	Bambi Bucket for aerial firefighting	[540]
2017	Earle Dickson	1892	Band-Aid self-adhesive bandages	[541]
2017	Eli Harari	1945	Floating-gate EEPROM	[542]
2017	Frances Ligler	1951	Portable optical air sensor	[543]
2017	Haren S. Gandhi	1941	Automotive exhaust catalyst	[544]
2017	Harold E. Froehlich	1922	Deep-sea submersible	[545]
2017	Howard Head	1914	Laminated ski; oversized tennis racket	[546]
2017	Iver Anderson	1953	Lead-free solder	[547]
2017	Marshall Jones	1941	Industrial laser	[548]
2017	Tom Leighton	1956	Content delivery network	[549]
2018	Adi Shamir	1952	RSA cryptography	[550]
2018	Arogyaswami Paulraj	1944	MIMO wireless technology	[551]
2018	Ching W. Tang	1947	Organic light-emitting diode (OLED)	[552]
2018	Howard S. Jones	1921	Conformal antenna	[553]
2018	Jacqueline Quinn	1967	EZVI (Emulsified Zerovalent iron)	[554]
2018	Joseph Shivers	1920	LYCRA fiber (Spandex)	[555]
2018	Leonard Adleman	1945	RSA cryptography	[556]
2018	Marvin H. Caruthers	1940	Chemical synthesis of DNA	[557]
2018	Mary Engle Pennington	1872	Food preservation and food storage	[558]
2018	Paul Terasaki	1929	Tissue typing for organ transplants, Terasaki tray	[559]
2018	Ronald Rivest	1947	RSA cryptography	[560]
2018	Stan Honey	1955	Sports broadcast graphic enhancements	[561]
2018	Steven Van Slyke	1956	Organic light-emitting diode (OLED)	[562]
2018	Sumita Mitra	1949	Nanocomposite dental materials	[563]
2018	Warren S. Johnson	1847	Temperature control	[564]
2019	Alonzo G. Decker Jr.	1884	Portable hand-held electric drill	[565]
2019	Andrew Higgins	1886	Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP)	[566]
2019	Chieko Asakawa	1958	Home Page Reader	[567]
2019	David Wait	1953	Microarray	[568]
2019	Dennis Ritchie	1941	UNIX operating system	[569]
2019	Edmund O. Schweitzer III	1947	Digital protective relay	[570]
2019	Frederick Novello	1916	Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide)	[571]
2019	James Sprague	1909	Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide)	[572]
2019	James Truchard	1943	LabVIEW	[573]
2019	Jeff Kodosky	1949	LabVIEW	[574]
2019	John Baer	1917	Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide)	[575]
2019	Joseph C. Muhler	1923	Stannous fluoride toothpaste	[576]
2019	Joseph Lee	1849	Bread machine	[577]
2019	Karl H. Beyer Jr.	1914	Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide)	[578]
2019	Ken Thompson	1943	UNIX operating system	[579]
2019	Rebecca Richards-Kortum	1964	Medical devices for low-resource settings	[580]
2019	S. Duncan Black	1883	Portable hand-held electric drill	[581]
2019	William J. Warner	1955	Digital non-linear editing system	[582]
2019	William Nebergall	1914	Stannous fluoride toothpaste	[583]
2020	Dana Bookbinder	1956	Bend-insensitive optical fiber	[584]
2020	Edward W. Bullard	1893	Hard hat	[585]
2020	Edward Sisler	1930	1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP)	[586]
2020	Evelyn Berezin	1925	Computer systems for business use	[587]
2020	Floyd Smith	1884	Modern parachute	[588]
2020	Frank Zybach	1894	Center-pivot irrigation	[589]
2020	Harry Cameron	1872	Blowout preventer (BOP)	[590]
2020	Hinda Miller	1950	Sports bra	[591]
2020	James Abercrombie	1891	Blowout preventer (BOP)	[592]
2020	James McEwen	1948	Automatic surgical tourniquet	[593]
2020	John Nicholson	1925	Ibuprofen	[594]
2020	Lisa Lindahl	1948	Sports bra	[595]
2020	Margaret Wu	1950	Synthetic lubricants	[596]
2020	Mick Mountz	1965	Mobile robotic material handling	[597]
2020	Ming-Jun Li	1959	Bend-insensitive optical fiber	[598]
2020	Peter Wurman	1965	Mobile robotic material handling	[599]
2020	Polly Smith	1949	Sports bra	[600]
2020	Pushkar Tandon	1967	Bend-insensitive optical fiber	[601]
2020	R. Rox Anderson	1950	Laser dermatology	[602]
2020	Raffaelo D'Andrea	1967	Mobile robotic material handling	[603]
2020	Stewart Adams	1923	Ibuprofen	[604]
2020	Sylvia Blankenship	1954	1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP)	[605]
2022	Carl Benz	1844	Automobile	[606]
2022	James Buchanan Eads	1820	Steamboat	[607]
2022	Lonnie Johnson	1949	Super Soaker	[608]
2022	Marian Croak	1955	VoIP	[609]
2022	Patricia Bath	1942	Cataract surgery	[610]
2023	Angela Hartley Brodie	1934	Steroidal aromatase inhibitors	[611]
2023	Cyril Keller	1922	Skid-steer loader	[612]
2023	Drew Weissman	1959	Messenger RNA	[613]
2023	Emmanuelle Charpentier	1968	CRISPR gene editing	[614]
2023	James A. Parsons Jr.	1900	Alloy 20	[615]
2023	Jennifer Doudna	1964	CRISPR gene editing	[616]
2023	Katalin Karikó	1955	Messenger RNA	[617]
2023	Louis Keller	1923	Skid-steer loader	[618]
2023	Luis von Ahn	1978	reCAPTCHA	[619]
2023	Lynn Conway	1938	Very Large Scale Integration	[620]
2023	Marjorie Stewart Joyner	1896	Permanent wave machine	[621]
2023	Philippe Horvath	1970	CRISPR gene editing	[622]
2023	Robert Bryant	1962	Langley Research Center-Soluble Imide	[623]
2023	Rodolphe Barrangou	1975	CRISPR gene editing	[624]
2023	Roger Tsien	1952	Green fluorescent protein	[625]
2023	Rory Cooper	1959	Wheelchair	[626]
2024	James P. Allison	1948	Immune Checkpoint Blockade Therapy	[627]
2024	Shankar Balasubramanian	1966	Sequencing-by-Synthesis, a DNA Sequencing method	[628]
2024	David Klenerman	1959	Sequencing-by-Synthesis, a DNA Sequencing method	[629]
2024	Eric Betzig	1960	Photoactivated Localization Microscopy	[630]
2024	Harald Hess	1955	Photoactivated Localization Microscopy	[631]
2024	Joseph-Armand Bombardier	1907	Ski-Doo Snowmobile	[632]
2024	Andrea Goldsmith (engineer)	1964	Adaptive Beamforming for Multi-Antenna Wi-Fi	[633]
2024	Asad M. Madni*	1947	MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) GyroChip	[634]
2024	George Washington Murray	1853	Agricultural Machinery	[635]
2024	Mary Florence Potts	1850	Cold-Handle Sad Iron	[636]
2024	Lanny Smoot	1955	Theatrical Technologies, Special Effects	[637]
2024	Alice Mary Stoll	1917	Fire-Resistant Fibers, Fabrics	[638]
2024	Takamine Jōkichi	1854	Adrenaline (epinephrine)	[639]
2024	Ralph Teetor	1890	Cruise control	[640]
2024	Xiaowei Zhuang	1972	Stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy	[641]
2025	John R. Adler	1954	CyberKnife® Stereotactic Radiosurgery	[642]
2025	Karl Bacon	1910	Tubular Steel Track Roller Coaster	[643]
2025	Edgar (Ed) Morgan	1915	Tubular Steel Track Roller Coaster	[644]
2025	Tom Blake (surfer)	1902	Surfboard Design	[645]
2025	Emil J. Freireich	1927	Continuous-Flow Blood Cell Separator	[646]
2025	George Judson	1925	Continuous-Flow Blood Cell Separator	[647]
2025	James Fujimoto	1957	Optical Coherence Tomography	[648]
2025	David Huang (ophthalmologist)	1964	Optical Coherence Tomography	[649]
2025	Eric A. Swanson	1960	Optical Coherence Tomography	[650]
2025	Barney S. Graham	1953	Structure-Based Vaccine Design	[651]
2025	Jason McLellan	1981	Structure-Based Vaccine Design	[652]
2025	Kerrie Holley	1954	Service-Oriented Architecture	[653]
2025	Virginia Holsinger	1937	Dairy Product Innovations	[654]
2025	Pamela Marrone	1956	Biological pest control	[655]
2025	Virginia Norwood	1927	Multispectral Scanner	[656]
2025	Charles Richard Patterson	1833	Carriages	[657]
2025	Richard Schatz	1952	Palmaz-Schatz Coronary Stent	[658]