List of National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees

Main article: National Inventors Hall of Fame

The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) inductees includes over 500 inventors spanning three centuries of lifetimes. John Fitch was the earliest born inventor inducted into the NIHF (1743), while Jaap Haartsen is currently the most recently born (1963).

Key

Key
*	Denotes inventor was also awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)'s Medal of Honor, given for an exceptional contribution or extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest

Inductees

Inductee	Birth	Death	Notable	Year	NIHF
Edward Goodrich Acheson	1856	1931	Carborundum	1997	[1]
Robert Adler	1913	2007	Television remote control	2008	[2]
Herman Affel	1893	1972	Coaxial cable	2006	[3]
Howard Aiken	1900	1973	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	2014	[4]
George Edward Alcorn, Jr.	1940	—	X-ray spectrometer	2015	[5]
Samuel W. Alderson	1914	2005	Crash test dummy	2013	[6]
Ernst Alexanderson*	1878	1975	Radio	1983	[7]
Andrew Alford	1904	1992	VHF omnidirectional range	1983	[8]
Samuel Leeds Allen	1841	1918	Flexible flyer sled	2007	[9]
Luis Walter Alvarez	1911	1988	Radio distance and direction indicator; Hydrogen bubble chamber	1978	[10]
Mary Anderson	1866	1953	Windshield wiper	2011	[11]
George Antheil	1900	1959	Frequency-hopping spread spectrum	2014	[12]
Thomas Armat	1866	1948	Movie projector	2011	[13]
Edwin Howard Armstrong*	1890	1954	FM radio	1980	[14]
Frances Arnold	1956	—	Evolution of enzymes	2014	[15]
Arthur Ashkin	1922	—	Optical trapping	2013	[16]
Martin Atalla	1924	2009	MOSFET	2009	[17]
Alpheus Babcock	1785	1842	Cast iron piano frame	2007	[18]
George Herman Babcock	1832	1893	Steam generator	1997	[19]
Leo Baekeland	1863	1944	Bakelite	1978	[20]
Ralph Baer	1922	2014	Television gaming and training apparatus	2010	[21]
Rodney Bagley	1934	—	Substrate for catalytic converters	2002	[22]
Matthias W. Baldwin	1795	1866	Steam locomotive	2005	[23]
Robert Banks	1921	1989	Polypropylene plastics	2001	[24]
Frederick Banting	1891	1941	Isolated and purified insulin	2004	[25]
Paul Baran	1926	2011	Digital packet switching	2007	[26]
John Bardeen*	1908	1991	Transistor	1974	[27]
C. Donald Bateman	1932	—	Ground proximity warning system	2005	[28]
Andrew Jackson Beard	1849	1921	Improved Janney coupler for railroad cars	2006	[29]
Arnold Orville Beckman	1900	2004	pH meter	1987	[30]
Semi Joseph Begun	1905	1995	Magnetic recording	1998	[31]
Alexander Graham Bell	1847	1922	Telephone	1974	[32]
Ruth R. Benerito	1916	2013	Wrinkle-free cotton	2008	[33]
Willard Harrison Bennett	1903	1987	Mass spectrometry	1991	[34]
Emile Berliner	1851	1929	Gramophone and microphone	1994	[35]
Henry Bessemer	1813	1898	Bessemer process for steel production	2002	[36]
Charles Herbert Best	1899	1978	Isolation of insulin	2004	[37]
Erastus Brigham Bigelow	1814	1879	Powered loom	2006	[38]
Edwin Binney	1866	1934	Carbon black manufacturing	2011	[39]
Gerd Binnig	1947	—	Scanning tunneling microscope	1994	[40]
Forrest Bird	1921	2015	Respirator / Ventilator	1995	[41]
John Birden	1918	2011	Radioisotope thermoelectric generator	2013	[42]
Clarence Birdseye	1886	1956	Frozen food	2005	[43]
László Bíró	1899	1985	Ballpoint pen	2007	[44]
Donald Bitzer	1934	—	Plasma display	2013	[45]
Harold Stephen Black	1898	1983	Feedback amplifier	1981	[46]
Eli Whitney Blake	1795	1886	Machine for crushing stone	2007	[47]
Helen Blanchard	1840	1922	Innovations to sewing machine	2006	[48]
Thomas Blanchard	1788	1864	Pattern lathe	2006	[49]
Katharine Burr Blodgett	1898	1979	Langmuir-Blodgett film	2007	[50]
Samuel E. Blum	1920	2013	LASIK eye surgery	2002	[51]
Baruch Samuel Blumberg	1925	2011	Vaccine for hepatitis B	1993	[52]
James Bogardus	1800	1874	Iron frame building	2007	[53]
Nils Bohlin	1920	2002	Safety belt	2002	[54]
Gail Borden	1801	1874	Process for condensed milk	2006	[55]
Carl Bosch	1874	1940	Haber-Bosch process for ammonia production	2006	[56]
Amar Bose	1929	2013	Audio feedback control	2008	[57]
Robert W. Bower	1936	—	MOSFET	1997	[58]
Bill Bowerman	1911	1999	Modern athletic shoe	2014	[59]
Seth Boyden	1788	1870	Process for making malleable iron	2006	[60]
Herbert Boyer	1936	—	Genetic engineering	2001	[61]
Otis Boykin	1920	1982	Electrical resistor	2014	[62]
Willard Boyle	1924	2011	Charge coupled device	2006	[63]
Milton Bradley	1836	1911	Game board	2006	[64]
Jacques E. Brandenberger	1872	1954	Cellophane	2006	[65]
Charles F. Brannock	1903	1992	Brannock device for foot measuring	1992	[66]
Walter Houser Brattain	1902	1987	Transistor	1974	[67]
Yvonne Brill	1924	2013	Dual thrust level monopropellant spacecraft propulsion system	2010	[68]
Garrett Brown	1942	—	Steadicam Camera stabilizer	2013	[69]
Rachel Fuller Brown	1898	1980	Nystatin antifungal	1994	[70]
John Browning	1855	1926	Breech-loading rifle	2007	[71]
Charles F. Brush	1849	1929	Arc light for street lighting	2006	[72]
Francis R. Bundy	1910	2008	Diamond synthesis	2010	[73]
Luther Burbank	1849	1926	Plant breeding	1986	[74]
Joseph H. Burckhalter	1912	2004	Isothiocyanates	1995	[75]
John Burke	1922	2011	Artificial skin	2015	[76]
William Seward Burroughs I	1857	1898	Adding machine	1987	[77]
William Merriam Burton	1865	1954	Catalytic cracking	1984	[78]
Vannevar Bush	1890	1974	Differential analyzer	2004	[79]
Edward A. Calahan	1838	1912	Stock ticker	2006	[80]
Donald L. Campbell	1904	2002	Catalytic cracking	1999	[81]
George Ashley Campbell	1870	1954	Loading coil	2011	[82]
Marvin Camras	1916	1995	Magnetic recording	1985	[83]
Chester Carlson	1906	1968	Xerographic printing	1981	[84]
Wallace Carothers	1896	1937	Synthetic rubber, nylon	1984	[85]
Willis Carrier	1876	1950	Air conditioner	1985	[86]
George Robert Carruthers	1939	—	Ultraviolet camera	2003	[87]
George Washington Carver	1864	1943	Peanut products	1990	[88]
Frank Cepollina	1936	—	Satellite servicing techniques	2003	[89]
Vint Cerf	1943	—	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)	2006	[90]
Daryl Chapin	1906	1995	Solar cell	2008	[91]
Emmett Chappelle	1925	—	Bioluminescence	2007	[92]
John Charnley	1911	1982	Hip replacement surgery	2008	[93]
Mary-Dell Chilton	1939	—	Transgenic plant	2015	[94]
Alfred Y. Cho*	1937	—	Molecular beam epitaxy	2009	[95]
Edith Clarke	1883	1959	Graphical calculator	2015	[96]
Georges Claude	1870	1960	Neon light	2007	[97]
Josephine Cochrane	1839	1913	Dishwasher	2006	[98]
Stanley Norman Cohen	1935	—	Genetic engineering	2001	[99]
James Collip	1892	1965	Isolated and purified insulin	2004	[100]
Samuel Colt	1814	1862	Colt revolver with interchangeable parts	2006	[101]
Frank B. Colton	1923	2003	Oral contraceptives	1988	[102]
Lloyd Conover	1923	—	Tetracycline	1992	[103]
William D. Coolidge	1873	1975	X-ray tube	1975	[104]
Peter Cooper	1791	1883	Steam locomotive	2006	[105]
Harry Coover	1917	2011	Superglue	2004	[106]
George Henry Corliss	1817	1888	Improvements to steam engine	2006	[107]
Martha Coston	1826	1904	Signal flare used for ships	2006	[108]
Frederick Gardner Cottrell	1877	1948	Electrostatic precipitator	1992	[109]
Wallace H. Coulter	1913	1998	Coulter principle	2004	[110]
Jacques Cousteau	1910	1997	Diving unit	2010	[111]
Joshua Lionel Cowen	1877	1965	Model train	2007	[112]
Eckley Coxe	1839	1895	Traveling grate furnace	2006	[113]
Seymour Cray	1925	1996	Supercomputer	1997	[114]
George Crompton	1829	1886	Loom	2007	[115]
David Crosthwait	1892	1976	Heating and ventilation system	2014	[116]
Glenn Curtiss	1878	1930	Hydroplane	2003	[117]
David Cushman	1939	2000	Captopril	2007	[118]
Gottlieb Daimler	1834	1900	Design of automobile and motorcycle engines	2006	[119]
Raymond Vahan Damadian	1936	—	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)	1989	[120]
John Daugman	1954	—	Iris recognition algorithm	2013	[121]
Donald Davies	1924	2000	Digital packet switching	2007	[122]
Lee De Forest*	1873	1961	Audion amplifier tube	1977	[123]
George de Mestral	1907	1990	Velcro	1999	[124]
Mark Dean	1957	—	Computer peripherals	1997	[125]
John Deere	1804	1886	Farm plow	1989	[126]
Robert H. Dennard*	1932	—	Dynamic random access memory (DRAM)	1997	[127]
George Devol	1912	2011	Industrial robot	2011	[128]
Albert Dick	1856	1934	Duplicating machine	2011	[129]
Rudolf Diesel	1858	1913	Internal-combustion engine	1976	[130]
Whitfield Diffie	1944	—	Public-key cryptography	2011	[131]
Richard DiMarchi	1952	—	Insulin Lispro	2014	[132]
Walt Disney	1901	1966	Multiplane camera	2000	[133]
Carl Djerassi	1923	2015	Oral contraceptives	1978	[134]
Ray Dolby	1933	2013	Dolby noise reduction	2004	[135]
Marion Donovan	1917	1998	Waterproof diaper cover	2015	[136]
Herbert Henry Dow	1866	1930	Bromine extraction	1983	[137]
Charles Stark Draper	1901	1987	Stabilizing gyroscopic	1981	[138]
Mildred Dresselhaus	1930	—	Lattice structure	2014	[139]
Charles R. Drew	1904	1950	Surgical needle	2015	[140]
Richard Gurley Drew	1899	1980	Adhesive tape	2007	[141]
Philip Drinker	1894	1972	Iron lung	2007	[142]
John Boyd Dunlop	1840	1921	Pneumatic tire	2006	[143]
Graham J. Durant	1934	2009	Cimetidine	1990	[144]
Benjamin Durfee	1897	1980	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	2014	[145]
George Eastman	1854	1932	Photography	1977	[146]
Roger L. Easton	1921	2014	TIMATION satellite navigation system	2010	[147]
J. Presper Eckert	1919	1995	ENIAC	2002	[148]
Harold Eugene Edgerton	1903	1990	Stroboscope photography	1986	[149]
Thomas Edison	1847	1931	Electric lighting, motion pictures, phonograph	1973	[150]
Alfred Einhorn	1856	1917	Novocain	2007	[151]
Willem Einthoven	1860	1927	Electrocardiograph	2008	[152]
Gertrude B. Elion	1918	1999	Leukemia drug	1991	[153]
Carleton Ellis	1876	1941	Margarine	2011	[154]
John Colin Emmett	1939	—	Cimetidine	1990	[155]
Akira Endo	1933	—	Mevastatin	2012	[156]
Douglas Engelbart	1925	2013	Computer mouse	1998	[157]
John Ericsson	1803	1889	Screw propeller	1993	[158]
Lloyd Espenschied*	1889	1986	Coaxial cable	2006	[159]
Oliver Evans	1755	1819	High pressure steam engine	2001	[160]
Ole Evinrude	1877	1934	Outboard motor	2007	[161]
Maxime Faget	1921	2004	Space capsule	2003	[162]
Federico Faggin	1941	—	Microprocessor	1996	[163]
Moses G. Farmer	1820	1893	Electric fire alarm system	2006	[164]
Philo Farnsworth	1906	1971	Television	1984	[165]
James Fergason	1934	2008	Liquid crystal display	1998	[166]
Enrico Fermi	1901	1954	Nuclear fission	1976	[167]
Reginald Fessenden*	1866	1932	AM radio	2000	[168]
Harvey Samuel Firestone	1868	1938	Pneumatic tire	2006	[169]
John Fitch	1743	1798	Steamboat	2006	[170]
Edith M. Flanigen	1929	—	Molecular sieves	2004	[171]
Leonard Flom	1927	—	Iris recognition algorithm	2013	[172]
Thomas J. Fogarty	1934	—	Embolectomy catheter	2001	[173]
Judah Folkman	1933	2008	Angiogenesis inhibition	2010	[174]
Henry Ford	1863	1947	Automobile	1982	[175]
Jay Wright Forrester*	1918	—	Random access memory (RAM)	1979	[176]
Eric Fossum	1957	—	CMOS active pixel image sensor camera-on-a-chip	2011	[177]
John E. Franz	1929	—	Roundup	2007	[178]
Alfred Free	1913	2000	Glucose detection for diabetes	2000	[179]
Helen Murray Free	1923	—	Glucose detection for diabetes	2000	[180]
Ross Freeman	1948	1989	Configurable electrical circuit having configurable logic elements and configurable interconnects	2009	[181]
Dov Frohman	1939	—	Erasable programmable read only memory array (EPROM)	2009	[182]
Arthur Fry	1931	—	Post-it notes	2010	[183]
Calvin Souther Fuller	1902	1994	Solar Cell	2008	[184]
Robert Fulton	1765	1815	Steamboat	2006	[185]
Dennis Gabor*	1900	1979	Electron holography	2012	[186]
Ashok Gadgil	1950	—	Water disinfection	2014	[187]
Émile Gagnan	1900	1979	Aqua-lung diving equipment	2010	[188]
Robert Gallo	1937	—	HIV isolation	2004	[189]
C. Robin Ganellin	1934	—	Cimetidine	1990	[190]
Edmund Germer	1901	1987	Fluorescent lighting	1996	[191]
Ivan A. Getting	1912	2003	Global Positioning System (GPS)	2004	[192]
John Heysham Gibbon	1903	1973	Heart-lung machine	2004	[193]
King C. Gillette	1855	1932	Safety razor	2007	[194]
Charles Ginsburg	1920	1992	Video tape recording	1990	[195]
Joseph Glidden	1813	1906	Barbed wire	2006	[196]
Robert H. Goddard	1882	1945	Solid fuel rockets	1979	[197]
William Goddard	1913	1997	Hard drive and floppy disk	2007	[198]
Leopold Godowsky, Jr.	1900	1983	Kodachrome	2005	[199]
Peter Carl Goldmark	1906	1977	Long playing record	2007	[200]
Hannibal Goodwin	1822	1900	Transparent flexible nitrocellulose	2011	[201]
Charles Goodyear	1800	1860	Vulcanization of rubber	1976	[202]
Robert W. Gore	1937	—	Gore-Tex	2006	[203]
Gordon Gould	1920	2005	Laser	1991	[204]
Zénobe Gramme	1826	1901	Direct-current dynamo	2006	[205]
Elisha Gray	1835	1901	Telephone and telegraph improvements	2007	[206]
Wilson Greatbatch	1919	2011	Heart pacemaker	1986	[207]
Leonard Greene	1918	2006	Aircraft stall warning	1991	[208]
Leroy Grumman	1895	1982	Retractable landing gear	2003	[209]
Robert Gundlach	1926	2010	Photocopier	2005	[210]
Jaap Haartsen	1963	—	Bluetooth wireless technology	2015	[211]
Fritz Haber	1868	1934	Ammonia production process	2006	[212]
Charles Martin Hall	1863	1914	Aluminum production process	1976	[213]
Lloyd Hall	1894	1971	Food preservation	2004	[214]
Robert N. Hall	1919	—	Magnetron	1994	[215]
Thomas Seavey Hall	1827	1880	Railroad signal	2007	[216]
Tracy Hall	1919	2008	Synthetic diamond	2010	[217]
Andrew Smith Hallidie	1836	1900	Cable car	2006	[218]
Francis E. Hamilton	1898	1972	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	2014	[219]
John Hays Hammond, Jr.	1888	1965	Radio control	2011	[220]
William Edward Hanford	1908	1996	Polyurethane	1991	[221]
Walter Lincoln Hawkins	1911	1992	Polymer cable sheath	2010	[222]
Elizabeth Lee Hazen	1885	1975	Nystatin	1994	[223]
M. Stephen Heilman	1933	—	Defibrillator	2002	[224]
George H. Heilmeier*	1936	2014	Electro-optic liquid crystal device	2009	[225]
Martin Hellman	1945	—	Public-key cryptography	2011	[226]
François Hennebique	1842	1921	Reinforced concrete construction	2011	[227]
Beulah Louise Henry	1887	1973	Ice cream freezer	2006	[228]
Peter Cooper Hewitt	1861	1921	Mercury-vapor lamp	2011	[229]
William Redington Hewlett	1913	2001	Audio signals	1992	[230]
Rene Alphonse Higonnet	1902	1983	Phototypesetting machine	1985	[231]
Maurice Hilleman	1919	2005	Vacciness	2007	[232]
James Hillier	1915	2007	Electron microscope	1980	[233]
Richard March Hoe	1812	1886	Rotary printing press	2006	[234]
Jean Hoerni	1924	1997	Planar manufacturing process	2009	[235]
Marcian Hoff	1937	—	Microprocessor	1996	[236]
Felix Hoffmann	1868	1946	Aspirin	2002	[237]
J. Paul Hogan	1919	2012	Polypropylene and HDPE	2001	[238]
John Philip Holland	1840	1914	Submarine	2007	[239]
Herman Hollerith	1860	1929	Recording data on a machine readable medium, punched card, tabulator	1990	[240]
Alexander Lyman Holley	1832	1882	Steelmaking	2006	[241]
Birdsill Holly	1820	1894	Fire hydrant	2006	[242]
Donald Holmes	1910	1980	Polyurethane	1991	[243]
Nick Holonyak*	1928	—	visible light emitting diode	2008	[244]
Benjamin Holt	1849	1920	Tractor	2006	[245]
Leroy Hood	1938	—	DNA sequencer	2007	[246]
Erna Schneider Hoover	1926	—	Computerized telephone switching	2008	[247]
Larry J. Hornbeck	1943	—	Spatial light modulator and method	2009	[248]
Eugene Houdry	1892	1962	Catalytic cracking	1990	[249]
Godfrey Hounsfield	1919	2004	CAT scanner	2007	[250]
Elias Howe	1819	1867	Sewing machine	2004	[251]
George Hulett	1846	1923	Loading and unloading machine	2006	[252]
Chuck Hull	1939	—	Stereolithography	2014	[253]
Walter Hunt	1796	1859	Safety pin	2006	[254]
John Wesley Hyatt	1837	1920	Celluloid	2006	[255]
James Franklin Hyde	1903	1999	Transparent silica	2000	[256]
Simon Ingersoll	1818	1894	Steam powered rock drill	2006	[257]
Frederic Eugene Ives	1856	1937	Color photography	2011	[258]
Irwin M. Jacobs	1933	—	Spread spectrum multiple access communication system	2013	[259]
Ali Javan	1926	—	Helium-neon laser	2006	[260]
Alec Jeffreys	1950	—	Genetic fingerprinting	2005	[261]
Charles Francis Jenkins	1867	1934	Movie projector	2011	[262]
Thomas Jennings	1791	1859	Dry scouring	2015	[263]
Steve Jobs	1955	2011	Personal computer, mobile phone, animated movie, digital publishing	2012	[264]
Amos E. Joel, Jr.*	1918	2008	Switching concept for cellular phones	2008	[265]
Clarence Johnson	1910	1990	Aircraft	2008	[266]
Kristina M. Johnson	1958	—	Polarization-control technology	2015	[267]
Frederick McKinley Jones	1893	1961	Refrigeration	2007	[268]
Kenneth Jordan	1921	2008	Radioisotope thermoelectric generator	2013	[269]
Percy Lavon Julian	1899	1975	Cortisone synthesis	1990	[270]
Bob Kahn	1938	—	Internet Protocol (IP)	2006	[271]
Dawon Kahng	1931	1992	Electric field controlled semiconductor device	2009	[272]
Charles Kaman	1919	2011	Innovations to helicopter	2003	[273]
Dean Kamen	1951	—	Ambulatory infusion pump	2005	[274]
Donald Keck	1941	—	Optical fiber	1993	[275]
John Harvey Kellogg	1852	1943	Breakfast cereal	2006	[276]
Charles Kelman	1930	2004	Cataract surgery	2004	[277]
Clarence Kemp	c. 1860	1911	Solar water heater	2011	[278]
Charles F. Kettering	1876	1958	Electric ignition	1980	[279]
Mary Dixon Kies	1752	1837	Process for weaving straw	2006	[280]
Jack Kilby*	1923	2005	Integrated circuit	1982	[281]
Albert Kingsbury	1863	1943	Thrust bearing	2007	[282]
Dale Kleist	1909	1998	Fiberglass	2006	[283]
Margaret E. Knight	1838	1914	Paper bag machine	2006	[284]
Willem Johan Kolff	1911	2009	Artificial heart	1985	[285]
Paul Kollsman	1900	1982	Altimeter	2003	[286]
William Justin Kroll	1889	1973	Titanium	2000	[287]
Raymond Kurzweil	1948	—	Optical character recognition	2002	[288]
Stephanie Kwolek	1923	2014	Kevlar	1995	[289]
Irwin Lachman	1930	—	Catalytic converter	2002	[290]
Clair Lake	1888	1958	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	2014	[291]
Hedy Lamarr	1914	2000	Frequency-hopping spread spectrum	2014	[292]
Edwin H. Land	1909	1991	Polaroid	1977	[293]
Alois Langer	1945	—	Defibrillator	2002	[294]
Robert S. Langer	1948	—	Drug delivery	2006	[295]
Irving Langmuir	1881	1957	Electric lighting	1989	[296]
L. L. Langstroth	1810	1895	Beehive	2007	[297]
Vincent L. Lanza	1922	1972	Polymer cable sheath	2010	[298]
Lewis Howard Latimer	1848	1928	Filament for electric light bulb	2006	[299]
Paul Lauterbur*	1929	2007	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)	2007	[300]
Ernest Lawrence	1901	1958	Cyclotron	1982	[301]
Bill Lear	1902	1978	8-track system	1993	[302]
Joseph Lechleider	1933	2015	Digital subscriber line (DSL)	2013	[303]
Robert Ledley	1926	2012	Whole-body CAT scan	1990	[304]
Henry M. Leland	1843	1932	Interchangeable parts for automobiles	2011	[305]
Ronald M. Lewis	1936	—	Catalytic converter	2002	[306]
Edwin Albert Link	1904	1981	Link trainer	2003	[307]
Barbara Liskov	1939	—	Programming Languages and System Design	2012	[308]
Oliver Lodge	1851	1940	Wireless telegraphy	2007	[309]
Alfred Loomis	1887	1975	Long range navigation system (LORAN)	2013	[310]
Auguste Lumière	1862	1954	Cinématographe	2007	[311]
Louis Lumière	1864	1948	Cinématographe	2007	[312]
John Lynott	1921	1994	Hard drive	2007	[313]
Paul B. MacCready	1925	2007	Gossamer Condor	2015	[314]
John MacDougall	1940	—	Ion implantation	2009	[315]
Stanley Macomber	1887	1967	Open web joist	2011	[316]
Theodore Harold Maiman	1927	2007	Laser	1984	[317]
Ken Manchester	1925	—	Ion implantation	2009	[318]
Leopold Mannes	1899	1964	Kodachrome	2005	[319]
Peter Mansfield	1933	—	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)	2007	[320]
Guglielmo Marconi*	1874	1937	Radio	1975	[321]
Warren Marrison	1896	1980	Quartz clock	2011	[322]
Homer Martin	1910	1993	Catalytic cracking	1999	[323]
John Landis Mason	1832	1902	Mason jar	2006	[324]
Jan Ernst Matzeliger	1852	1889	Shoe lasting	2006	[325]
John Mauchly	1907	1980	ENIAC	2002	[326]
Robert D. Maurer	1924	—	Optical fiber	1993	[327]
Hiram Stevens Maxim	1840	1916	Machine gun	2006	[328]
Wilhelm Maybach	1846	1929	Carburetor and radiator	2007	[329]
Stanley Mazor	1941	—	Central processing unit (CPU)	1996	[330]
Cyrus McCormick	1809	1884	Mechanical reaper	1976	[331]
Elijah McCoy	1844	1929	Engine lubricator	2001	[332]
Ray McIntire	1918	1996	Styrofoam	2008	[333]
Malcom McLean	1913	2001	Shipping containers	2008	[334]
Harold McMaster	1916	2003	Tempered glass	2008	[335]
Carver Mead	1934	—	VLSI method for designing chips	2009	[336]
Ottmar Mergenthaler	1854	1899	Linotype	1982	[337]
Ralph Merkle	1952	—	Public-key cryptography	2011	[338]
Robert Metcalfe*	1946	—	Ethernet	2007	[339]
Gary K. Michelson	1949	—	Spinal surgical devices	2011	[340]
Thomas Midgley, Jr.	1889	1944	Ethyl gasoline, fluorocarbon refrigerants	2003	[341]
Alexander Miles	1837	1905?	Elevator doors	2007	[342]
Lewis Miller	1829	1899	Combine harvester	2006	[343]
Irving Millman	1923	2012	Vaccine for hepatitis B	1993	[344]
Michel Mirowski	1924	1990	Heart defibrillator	2002	[345]
Dennis L. Moeller	1950	—	Computer peripherals	1997	[346]
Bryan Molloy	1939	2004	Prozac	1999	[347]
Luc Montagnier	1932	—	HIV isolation and antibody test	2004	[348]
Robert Moog	1934	2005	Moog synthesizer	2013	[349]
Gordon Moore*	1929	—	Semiconductor production	2009	[350]
Garrett A. Morgan	1887	1963	Gas mask	2005	[351]
Samuel Morse	1791	1872	Telegraph	1975	[352]
Morton Mower	1933	—	Implantable heart defibrillator	2002	[353]
Andrew J. Moyer	1899	1959	Penicillin	1987	[354]
Louis Marius Moyroud	1914	2010	Photograph composition	1985	[355]
Kary Mullis	1944	—	Polymerase chain reaction	1998	[356]
Eger V. Murphree	1898	1962	Catalytic cracking	1999	[357]
William P. Murphy Jr.	1923	—	Blood bag and disposable medical trays	2008	[358]
Thomas E. Murray	1860	1929	Early power generation	2011	[359]
Eadweard Muybridge	1830	1904	Stop action photography	2011	[360]
Shuji Nakamura	1954	—	Blue LED	2015	[361]
Walther Nernst	1864	1941	Metallic filament incandescent lamp	2011	[362]
Julius Nieuwland	1878	1936	Synthetic rubber	1996	[363]
Alfred Nobel	1833	1896	Dynamite	1998	[364]
Arthur Nobile	1920	2004	Prednisone	2007	[365]
John Knudsen Northrop	1895	1981	Flying wing plane	2003	[366]
Robert Noyce*	1927	1990	Integrated circuit	1983	[367]
Bernard M. Oliver	1916	1995	Pulse code modulation	2004	[368]
Ken Olsen	1926	2011	Magnetic core memory	1990	[369]
Miguel Ondetti	1930	2004	Captopril	2007	[370]
Elisha Otis	1811	1861	Elevator brake	1988	[371]
Nicolaus Otto	1832	1891	Otto cycle for internal combustion engine	1981	[372]
Stanford R. Ovshinsky	1922	2012	Nickel-metal hydride battery	2015	[373]
Michael Joseph Owens	1859	1923	Bottle making machine	2007	[374]
Charles Grafton Page	1812	1868	High-voltage induction coil	2006	[375]
William Painter	1838	1906	Bottle cap	2006	[376]
David Pall	1914	2004	Filtration technology	2008	[377]
Julio Palmaz	1945	—	Intravascular stent	2006	[378]
Louis W. Parker	1906	1993	Television	1988	[379]
Bradford Parkinson	1935	—	Global positioning system (GPS)	2004	[380]
John T. Parsons	1913	2007	Numerical control	1993	[381]
Louis Pasteur	1822	1895	Pasteurization	1978	[382]
C. Kumar N. Patel*	1938	—	Carbon dioxide laser	2012	[383]
Les Paul	1915	2009	Solid-body electric guitar	2005	[384]
Gerald Pearson	1905	1987	Solar cell	2008	[385]
Lester Allan Pelton	1829	1908	Waterwheel	2006	[386]
Henry F. Phillips	1890	1958	Phillips screw	2011	[387]
Thomas R. Pickering	1831	1895	Velocipede	2007	[388]
John R. Pierce*	1910	2002	Communications satellite	2003	[389]
Gregory Goodwin Pincus	1903	1967	Oral contraceptives	2006	[390]
Charles J. Plank	1915	1989	Catalytic cracking	1979	[391]
Roy J. Plunkett	1910	1994	Teflon	1985	[392]
Valdemar Poulsen	1869	1942	Magnetic wire recorder	2011	[393]
George Pullman	1831	1897	Pullman car	2006	[394]
Mihajlo Pupin	1858	1935	Loading coil	2011	[395]
Jacob Rabinow	1910	1999	Optical character recognition	2005	[396]
Grote Reber	1911	2002	Radio telescope	2013	[397]
Louis Renault	1877	1944	Drum brake	2006	[398]
Jesse W. Reno	1861	1947	Escalator	2007	[399]
Kenneth Richardson	1939	—	Fluconazole	2008	[400]
Norbert Rillieux	1806	1894	Refined sugar	2004	[401]
Robert H. Rines	1922	2009	High resolution radar and sonar	1994	[402]
James Ritty	1836	1918	Cash register	2011	[403]
John Ritty	1834	1913	Cash register	2011	[404]
John A. Roebling	1806	1869	Suspension bridge	2004	[405]
John Raphael Rogers	1856	1934	Automated typesetting	2007	[406]
Heinrich Rohrer	1933	2013	Scanning tunneling microscope	1994	[407]
Lubomyr Romankiw	1931	—	Thin film magnetic heads	2012	[408]
Harold Rosen	1926	—	Spin stabilized synchronous communications satellite	2003	[409]
Edward J. Rosinski	1921	2000	Catalytic cracking	1979	[410]
Benjamin Rubin	1917	2010	Vaccine needle	1992	[411]
Wallace Clement Sabine	1868	1919	Architectural acoustics	2011	[412]
Aran Safir	1926	2007	Iris recognition algorithm	2013	[413]
Lewis Hastings Sarett	1917	1999	Cortisone	1980	[414]
Steven Sasson	1950	—	Digital camera	2011	[415]
Joseph Saxton	1799	1873	Measuring instruments	2006	[416]
Arthur Leonard Schawlow	1921	1999	Laser	1996	[417]
Klaus Schmiegel	1939	—	Prozac	1999	[418]
Peter C. Schultz	1942	—	Optical fiber	1993	[419]
Glenn T. Seaborg	1912	1999	Plutonium isolation	2005	[420]
Charles Seeberger	1857	1931	Escalator	2007	[421]
Robert J. Seiwald	1925	—	Isothiocyanates	1995	[422]
William Sellers	1824	1905	Improvement in machine tools	2007	[423]
Waldo Semon	1898	1999	Polyvinyl chloride	1995	[424]
Gerhard M. Sessler	1931	—	Microphone	1999	[425]
Claude Shannon*	1916	2001	Pulse code modulation	2004	[426]
Gary D. Sharp	1962	—	Polarization-control technology	2015	[427]
John C. Sheehan	1915	1992	Structure and synthesis of penicillin	1995	[428]
Patsy O'Connell Sherman	1930	2008	Scotchgard	2001	[429]
William Shockley	1910	1989	Transistor	1974	[430]
Christopher Latham Sholes	1819	1890	Typewriter	2001	[431]
Frederick Ellsworth Sickels	1819	1895	Valve for steam engine	2007	[432]
Igor Sikorsky	1889	1972	Helicopter	1987	[433]
Bernard Silver	1924	1963	First optically scanned barcode	2011	[434]
Spencer Silver	1941	—	Post-it notes	2010	[435]
Samuel Slater	1768	1835	Cotton mills	2007	[436]
Games Slayter	1896	1964	Fiberglass	2006	[437]
H. Gene Slottow	1921	1989	Plasma display	2013	[438]
George E. Smith	1930	—	Charge-coupled device	2006	[439]
Samuel Smith	1927	2005	Scotchgard	2001	[440]
James M. Spangler	1848	1915	Portable electric vacuum cleaner	2006	[441]
Percy Spencer	1894	1970	Magnetron	1999	[442]
Elmer Ambrose Sperry	1860	1930	Gyroscopic compass	1991	[443]
Frank J. Sprague	1857	1934	Electric street car	2006	[444]
Rangaswamy Srinivasan	1929	—	LASIK eye surgery	2002	[445]
William Stanley, Jr.	1858	1916	Alternating current	1995	[446]
Gary Starkweather	1938	—	Laser printer	2012	[447]
Charles Steinmetz	1865	1923	Alternating current	1977	[448]
Leo Sternbach	1908	2005	Benzodiazepines	2005	[449]
John Stevens	1749	1838	Steam-powered transportation	2006	[450]
Louis Stevens	1925	2009	Magnetic disk storage	2008	[451]
George Stibitz	1904	1995	Digital computer	1983	[452]
S. Donald Stookey	1915	2014	Glass ceramics	2010	[453]
Herbert M. Strong	1908	2002	Synthetic diamond	2010	[454]
Almon Brown Strowger	1839	1902	Telephone dial	2006	[455]
Eugene Sullivan	1872	1962	Borosilicate glass	2011	[456]
Gideon Sundback	1880	1954	Zipper	2006	[457]
Ambrose Swasey	1846	1937	Improvements to telescope	2006	[458]
Leó Szilárd	1898	1964	Neutronic atomic reactor	1996	[459]
Donalee L. Tabern	1900	1974	Pentothal	1986	[460]
Charles Sumner Tainter	1854	1940	Innovations in sound recording	2006	[461]
Esther Sans Takeuchi	1953	—	Lithium/silver-vanadium oxide battery	2011	[462]
Gordon Kidd Teal*	1907	2003	Method of producing a semiconductor element	2009	[463]
Mária Telkes*	1900	1995	Solar thermal storage system	2012	[464]
Eli Terry	1772	1852	Innovations in clockmaking	2007	[465]
Nikola Tesla	1856	1943	Induction motor	1975	[466]
John H. Thomas	1907	1991	Fiberglass	2006	[467]
David A. Thompson	1940	—	Thin film magnetic heads	2012	[468]
Elihu Thomson	1853	1937	Arc lamp	2006	[469]
Louis Comfort Tiffany	1848	1933	Stained glass	2007	[470]
Henry Timken	1831	1909	Tapered roller ball bearings	1998	[471]
Max Tishler	1906	1989	Synthetic vitamins	1982	[472]
Charles Hard Townes*	1915	2015	Laser	1976	[473]
Charlie Tyson	1905	1977	Catalytic cracking	1999	[474]
William E. Upjohn	1853	1932	Tablet for delivering medicine	2006	[475]
Theophilus Van Kannel	1841	1919	Revolving door	2007	[476]
Andrew Viterbi	1935	—	Spread spectrum multiple access communication system	2013	[477]
Ernest H. Volwiler	1893	1992	Pentothal	1986	[478]
Theodore von Kármán	1881	1963	Turbojet	2003	[479]
Hans von Ohain	1911	1998	Jet engine	2003	[480]
Carl Auer von Welsbach	1858	1929	Improvements to gas lighting	2011	[481]
Selman Waksman	1888	1973	Streptomycin	2005	[482]
An Wang	1920	1990	Magnetic core memory	1988	[483]
Frank Wanlass	1933	2010	Low stand-by power complementary field effect circuitry	2009	[484]
Lewis Waterman	1837	1901	Fountain pen	2006	[485]
Thomas A. Watson	1854	1934	Improvements to telephone	2011	[486]
Robert H. Wentorf, Jr.	1926	1997	Synthetic diamond	2010	[487]
James Edward Maceo West	1931	—	Microphone	1999	[488]
George Westinghouse	1846	1914	Alternating current	1989	[489]
Edward Weston	1850	1936	Portable voltmeter	2006	[490]
Squire Whipple	1804	1888	Iron truss bridge	2007	[491]
Richard T. Whitcomb	1921	2009	Supercritical wing	2003	[492]
Rollin H. White	1872	1962	Flash boiler for generating steam-controlled differential steering	2011	[493]
Willis Whitfield	1919	2012	Clean room	2014	[494]
Eli Whitney	1765	1825	Cotton gin	1974	[495]
Frank Whittle	1907	1996	Jet engine	2003	[496]
Otto Wichterle	1913	1998	Soft contact lens	2007	[497]
Bob Widlar	1937	1991	Biasing scheme especially suited for integrated circuits	2009	[498]
Stephen Wilcox	1830	1893	Steam generator	1997	[499]
Robert R. Williams	1886	1965	Vitamin synthesis	1991	[500]
Sam B. Williams	1921	2009	Contributions to jet engine	2003	[501]
Robert Willson	1936	—	Plasma display	2013	[502]
Field H. Winslow	1916	2009	Polymer cable sheath	2010	[503]
Alexander Winton	1860	1932	Contributions to automobile, bicycle, and diesel engine	2006	[504]
Norman Joseph Woodland	1921	2012	First optically scanned barcode	2011	[505]
Granville Woods	1856	1910	Railroad telegraph	2006	[506]
Steve Wozniak	1950	—	Personal computer	2000	[507]
Orville Wright	1871	1948	Airplane	1975	[508]
Wilbur Wright	1867	1912	Airplane	1975	[509]
James J. Wynne	1943	—	LASIK eye surgery	2002	[510]
Linus Yale, Jr.	1821	1868	Cylinder lock	2006	[511]
Ioannis Yannas	1935	—	Artificial skin	2015	[512]
Alejandro Zaffaroni	1923	2014	Drug delivery systems	2012	[513]
Frank Zamboni	1901	1988	Ice resurfacer	2007	[514]
Ferdinand von Zeppelin	1838	1917	Rigid airship	2006	[515]
Vladimir K. Zworykin*	1888	1982	Cathode-ray tube	1977	[516]

External links

• The official website of the National Inventors Hall of Fame