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 600 inventors spanning three centuries of lifetimes. John Fitch was the earliest born inventor inducted into the NIHF (1743), while Barrett Comiskey is currently the most recently born (1975).

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

Induction	Inductee	Birth	Death	Notable	NIHF
2020	James Abercrombie	1891	1975	Blowout preventer (BOP)	[1]
1997	Edward Goodrich Acheson	1856	1931	Carborundum	[2]
2020	Stewart Adams	1923	2019	Ibuprofen	[3]
2018	Leonard Adleman	1945	—	RSA cryptography	[4]
2008	Robert Adler	1913	2007	Television remote control	[5]
2006	Herman Affel	1893	1972	Coaxial cable	[6]
2014	Howard Aiken	1900	1973	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	[7]
2016	JD Albert	1975	—	Electronic ink	[8]
2015	George Edward Alcorn, Jr.	1940	—	X-ray spectrometer	[9]
2013	Samuel W. Alderson	1914	2005	Crash test dummy	[10]
1983	Ernst Alexanderson*	1878	1975	High frequency alternator for radio	[11]
1983	Andrew Alford	1904	1992	VHF omnidirectional range	[12]
2007	Samuel Leeds Allen	1841	1918	Flexible flyer sled	[13]
1978	Luis Walter Alvarez	1911	1988	Radio distance and direction indicator; Hydrogen bubble chamber	[14]
2017	Iver Anderson	1953	—	Lead-free solder	[15]
2011	Mary Anderson	1866	1953	Windshield wiper	[16]
2020	R. Rox Anderson	1950	—	Laser dermatology	[17]
2016	Roger Angel	1941	—	Telescope mirror cell	[18]
2014	George Antheil	1900	1959	Frequency-hopping spread spectrum	[19]
2011	Thomas Armat	1866	1948	Movie projector	[20]
1980	Edwin Howard Armstrong*	1890	1954	FM radio	[21]
2017	Don Arney	1947	—	Bambi bucket for aerial firefighting	[22]
2014	Frances Arnold	1956	—	Evolution of enzymes	[23]
2019	Chieko Asakawa	1958	—	Home Page Reader	[24]
2013	Arthur Ashkin	1922	—	Optical trapping	[25]
2009	Mohamed M. Atalla	1924	2009	MOSFET transistor, silicon semiconductor surface passivation, ATM PIN security system	[26]
2007	Alpheus Babcock	1785	1842	Cast iron piano frame	[27]
1997	George Herman Babcock	1832	1893	Steam generator	[28]
2016	Roger Bacon	1926	2007	Carbon fibers	[29]
1978	Leo Baekeland	1863	1944	Bakelite	[30]
2019	John Baer	1917	2003	Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide)	[31]
2010	Ralph Baer	1922	2014	Video game console	[32]
2002	Rodney Bagley	1934	—	Substrate for catalytic converters	[33]
2005	Matthias W. Baldwin	1795	1866	Steam locomotive	[34]
2016	Bantval Jayant Baliga	1948	—	Insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)	[35]
2001	Robert Banks	1921	1989	Polypropylene plastics	[36]
2004	Frederick Banting	1891	1941	Isolated and purified insulin	[37]
2007	Paul Baran	1926	2011	Digital packet switching	[38]
1974	John Bardeen*	1908	1991	Transistor	[39]
2005	C. Donald Bateman	1932	—	Ground proximity warning system	[40]
2006	Andrew Jackson Beard	1849	1921	Improved Janney coupler for railroad cars	[41]
1987	Arnold Orville Beckman	1900	2004	pH meter	[42]
1998	Semi Joseph Begun	1905	1995	Magnetic recording	[43]
1974	Alexander Graham Bell	1847	1922	Telephone	[44]
2008	Ruth R. Benerito	1916	2013	Wrinkle-free cotton	[45]
1991	Willard Harrison Bennett	1903	1987	Mass spectrometry	[46]
2020	Evelyn Berezin	1925	2018	Computer systems for business use	[47]
1994	Emile Berliner	1851	1929	Gramophone and microphone	[48]
2017	Carolyn Bertozzi	1966	—	Bioorthogonal Chemistry	[49]
2002	Henry Bessemer	1813	1898	Bessemer process for steel production	[50]
2004	Charles Herbert Best	1899	1978	Isolation of insulin	[51]
2019	Karl H. Beyer Jr.	1914	1996	Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide)	[52]
2006	Erastus Brigham Bigelow	1814	1879	Powered loom	[53]
2011	Edwin Binney	1866	1934	Carbon black manufacturing	[54]
1994	Gerd Binnig	1947	—	Scanning tunneling microscope	[55]
1995	Forrest Bird	1921	2015	Respirator / Ventilator	[56]
2013	John Birden	1918	2011	Radioisotope thermoelectric generator	[57]
2005	Clarence Birdseye	1886	1956	Frozen food	[58]
2007	László Bíró	1899	1985	Ballpoint pen	[59]
2013	Donald Bitzer	1934	—	Plasma display	[60]
1981	Harold Stephen Black	1898	1983	Feedback amplifier	[61]
2019	S. Duncan Black	1883	1951	Portable hand-held electric drill	[62]
2007	Eli Whitney Blake	1795	1886	Rock crusher	[63]
2006	Helen Blanchard	1840	1922	Innovations to sewing machine	[64]
2006	Thomas Blanchard	1788	1864	Pattern lathe	[65]
2020	Sylvia Blankenship	1954	—	1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP)	[66]
2007	Katharine Burr Blodgett	1898	1979	Langmuir-Blodgett film	[67]
2002	Samuel E. Blum	1920	2013	LASIK eye surgery	[68]
1993	Baruch Samuel Blumberg	1925	2011	Vaccine for hepatitis B	[69]
2007	James Bogardus	1800	1874	Iron frame building	[70]
2002	Nils Bohlin	1920	2002	Safety belt	[71]
2020	Dana Bookbinder	1956	—	Bend-insensitive optical fiber	[72]
2006	Gail Borden	1801	1874	Process for condensed milk	[73]
2006	Carl Bosch	1874	1940	Haber-Bosch process for ammonia production	[74]
2008	Amar Bose	1929	2013	Audio feedback control	[75]
1997	Robert W. Bower	1936	—	Self-aligned-gate MOSFET transistor	[76]
2014	Bill Bowerman	1911	1999	Modern athletic shoe	[77]
2006	Seth Boyden	1788	1870	Process for making malleable iron	[78]
2001	Herbert Boyer	1936	—	Genetic engineering	[79]
2014	Otis Boykin	1920	1982	Electrical resistor	[80]
2006	Willard Boyle	1924	2011	Charge-coupled device	[81]
2006	Milton Bradley	1836	1911	Game board	[82]
2006	Jacques E. Brandenberger	1872	1954	Cellophane	[83]
2016	Per-Ingvar Brånemark	1929	2014	Dental implant	[84]
1992	Charles F. Brannock	1903	1992	Brannock device for foot measuring	[85]
1974	Walter Houser Brattain	1902	1987	Transistor	[86]
2010	Yvonne Brill	1924	2013	Dual thrust level monopropellant spacecraft propulsion system	[87]
2013	Garrett Brown	1942	—	Steadicam Camera stabilizer	[88]
1994	Rachel Fuller Brown	1898	1980	Nystatin (antifungal / antibiotic)	[89]
2007	John Browning	1855	1926	Breech-loading rifle	[90]
2006	Charles F. Brush	1849	1929	Arc light for street lighting	[91]
2020	Edward W. Bullard	1893	1963	Hard hat	[92]
2010	Francis P. Bundy	1910	2008	Diamond synthesis	[93]
1986	Luther Burbank	1849	1926	Plant breeding	[94]
1995	Joseph H. Burckhalter	1912	2004	Isothiocyanates	[95]
2015	John F. Burke	1922	2011	Artificial skin	[96]
1987	William Seward Burroughs I	1857	1898	Adding machine	[97]
1984	William Merriam Burton	1865	1954	Catalytic cracking	[98]
2004	Vannevar Bush	1890	1974	Differential analyzer	[99]
2006	Edward A. Calahan	1838	1912	Stock ticker	[100]
2020	Harry Cameron	1872	1928	Blowout preventer (BOP)	[101]
1999	Donald L. Campbell	1904	2002	Catalytic cracking	[102]
2011	George Ashley Campbell	1870	1954	Loading coil	[103]
1985	Marvin Camras	1916	1995	Magnetic recording	[104]
1981	Chester Carlson	1906	1968	Xerographic printing	[105]
1984	Wallace Carothers	1896	1937	Synthetic rubber, nylon	[106]
1985	Willis Carrier	1876	1950	Air conditioner	[107]
2003	George Robert Carruthers	1939	—	Ultraviolet camera	[108]
2018	Marvin H. Caruthers	1940	—	Chemical synthesis of DNA	[109]
1990	George Washington Carver	1864	1943	Peanut products	[110]
2003	Frank Cepollina	1936	—	Satellite servicing techniques	[111]
2006	Vint Cerf	1943	—	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)	[112]
2008	Daryl Chapin	1906	1995	Silicon solar cell	[113]
2007	Emmett Chappelle	1925	2019	Bioluminescence	[114]
2008	John Charnley	1911	1982	Hip replacement surgery	[115]
2015	Mary-Dell Chilton	1939	—	Transgenic plant	[116]
2009	Alfred Y. Cho*	1937	—	Molecular beam epitaxy	[117]
2015	Edith Clarke	1883	1959	Graphical calculator	[118]
2007	Georges Claude	1870	1960	Neon lighting	[119]
2006	Josephine Cochrane	1839	1913	Dishwasher	[120]
2001	Stanley Norman Cohen	1935	—	Genetic engineering	[121]
2004	James Collip	1892	1965	Isolated and purified insulin	[122]
2006	Samuel Colt	1814	1862	Colt revolver with interchangeable parts	[123]
1988	Frank B. Colton	1923	2003	Oral contraceptives	[124]
2016	Barrett Comiskey	1975	—	Electronic ink	[125]
1992	Lloyd Conover	1923	2017	Tetracycline	[126]
1975	William D. Coolidge	1873	1975	X-ray tube	[127]
2006	Peter Cooper	1791	1883	Steam locomotive	[128]
2004	Harry Coover	1917	2011	Superglue	[129]
2006	George Henry Corliss	1817	1888	Improvements to steam engine	[130]
2006	Martha Coston	1826	1904	Signal flare used for ships	[131]
1992	Frederick Gardner Cottrell	1877	1948	Electrostatic precipitator	[132]
2004	Wallace H. Coulter	1913	1998	Coulter principle	[133]
2010	Jacques Cousteau	1910	1997	Diving unit	[134]
2007	Joshua Lionel Cowen	1877	1965	Toy train	[135]
2006	Eckley Coxe	1839	1895	Traveling grate furnace	[136]
1997	Seymour Cray	1925	1996	Supercomputer	[137]
2007	George Crompton	1829	1886	Loom	[138]
2014	David Crosthwait	1898	1976	Heating and ventilation system	[139]
2003	Glenn Curtiss	1878	1930	Hydroplane	[140]
2007	David Cushman	1939	2000	Captopril	[141]
2020	Raffaelo D'Andrea	1967	—	Mobile robotic material handling	[142]
2006	Gottlieb Daimler	1834	1900	Design of automobile and motorcycle engines	[143]
1989	Raymond Vahan Damadian	1936	—	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)	[144]
2013	John Daugman	1954	—	Iris recognition algorithm	[145]
2007	Donald Davies	1924	2000	Digital packet switching	[146]
1977	Lee De Forest*	1873	1961	Audion amplifier tube	[147]
1999	George de Mestral	1907	1990	Velcro	[148]
1997	Mark Dean	1957	—	Computer peripherals	[149]
2019	Alonzo G. Decker Jr.	1884	1956	Portable hand-held electric drill	[150]
1989	John Deere	1804	1886	Farm plow	[151]
1997	Robert H. Dennard*	1932	—	Dynamic random access memory (DRAM)	[152]
2011	George Devol	1912	2011	Industrial robot	[153]
2011	Albert Dick	1856	1934	Duplicating machine	[154]
2017	Earle Dickson	1892	1961	Band-Aid	[155]
1976	Rudolf Diesel	1858	1913	Internal-combustion engine	[156]
2011	Whitfield Diffie	1944	—	Public-key cryptography	[157]
2014	Richard DiMarchi	1952	—	Insulin Lispro	[158]
2000	Walt Disney	1901	1966	Multiplane camera	[159]
1978	Carl Djerassi	1923	2015	Oral contraceptives	[160]
2004	Ray Dolby	1933	2013	Dolby noise reduction	[161]
2015	Marion Donovan	1917	1998	Waterproof diaper cover	[162]
1983	Herbert Henry Dow	1866	1930	Bromine extraction	[163]
1981	Charles Stark Draper	1901	1987	Stabilizing gyroscopic	[164]
2014	Mildred Dresselhaus	1930	2017	Lattice structure	[165]
2015	Charles R. Drew	1904	1950	Surgical needle	[166]
2007	Richard Gurley Drew	1899	1980	Adhesive tape	[167]
2007	Philip Drinker	1894	1972	Iron lung	[168]
2006	John Boyd Dunlop	1840	1921	Pneumatic tire	[169]
1990	Graham J. Durant	1934	2009	Cimetidine	[170]
2014	Benjamin Durfee	1897	1980	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	[171]
1977	George Eastman	1854	1932	Photography	[172]
2010	Roger L. Easton	1921	2014	TIMATION satellite navigation system	[173]
2002	J. Presper Eckert	1919	1995	ENIAC	[174]
1986	Harold Eugene Edgerton	1903	1990	Stroboscope photography	[175]
1973	Thomas Edison	1847	1931	Electric lighting, motion pictures, phonograph	[176]
2007	Alfred Einhorn	1856	1917	Novocain	[177]
2008	Willem Einthoven	1860	1927	Electrocardiograph	[178]
1991	Gertrude B. Elion	1918	1999	Leukemia drug	[179]
2011	Carleton Ellis	1876	1941	Margarine	[180]
1990	John Colin Emmett	1939	—	Cimetidine	[181]
2012	Akira Endo	1933	—	Mevastatin	[182]
1998	Douglas Engelbart	1925	2013	Computer mouse	[183]
1993	John Ericsson	1803	1889	Screw propeller	[184]
2006	Lloyd Espenschied*	1889	1986	Coaxial cable	[185]
2001	Oliver Evans	1755	1819	High-pressure steam engine	[186]
2007	Ole Evinrude	1877	1934	Outboard motor	[187]
2003	Maxime Faget	1921	2004	Space capsule	[188]
1996	Federico Faggin	1941	—	Microprocessor, silicon-gate MOSFET transistor	[189]
2006	Moses G. Farmer	1820	1893	Electric fire alarm system	[190]
1984	Philo Farnsworth	1906	1971	Television	[191]
1998	James Fergason	1934	2008	Liquid crystal display	[192]
1976	Enrico Fermi	1901	1954	Nuclear fission	[193]
2000	Reginald Fessenden*	1866	1932	AM radio	[194]
2006	Harvey Samuel Firestone	1868	1938	Pneumatic tire	[195]
2006	John Fitch	1743	1798	Steamboat	[196]
2004	Edith M. Flanigen	1929	—	Molecular sieves	[197]
2013	Leonard Flom	1927	—	Iris recognition algorithm	[198]
2001	Thomas J. Fogarty	1934	—	Embolectomy catheter	[199]
2010	Judah Folkman	1933	2008	Angiogenesis inhibition	[200]
1982	Henry Ford	1863	1947	Automobile	[201]
1979	Jay Wright Forrester*	1918	2016	Random access memory (RAM)	[202]
2011	Eric Fossum	1957	—	CMOS active pixel image sensor camera-on-a-chip	[203]
2007	John E. Franz	1929	—	Roundup	[204]
2000	Alfred Free	1913	2000	Glucose detection for diabetes	[205]
2000	Helen Murray Free	1923	—	Glucose detection for diabetes	[206]
2009	Ross Freeman	1948	1989	Electrical circuit having configurable logic elements and interconnects	[207]
2017	Harold E. Froehlich	1922	2007	Deep-sea submersible	[208]
2009	Dov Frohman	1939	—	Erasable programmable read only memory array (EPROM)	[209]
2010	Arthur Fry	1931	—	Post-it notes	[210]
2008	Calvin Souther Fuller	1902	1994	Silicon solar cell	[211]
2006	Robert Fulton	1765	1815	Steamboat	[212]
2012	Dennis Gabor*	1900	1979	Electron holography	[213]
2014	Ashok Gadgil	1950	—	Water disinfection	[214]
2010	Émile Gagnan	1900	1979	Aqua-lung diving equipment	[215]
2004	Robert Gallo	1937	—	HIV isolation	[216]
2017	Haren S. Gandhi	1941	2010	Automotive exhaust catalyst	[217]
1990	C. Robin Ganellin	1934	—	Cimetidine	[218]
1996	Edmund Germer	1901	1987	Fluorescent lighting	[219]
2004	Ivan A. Getting	1912	2003	Global Positioning System (GPS)	[220]
2004	John Heysham Gibbon	1903	1973	Heart-lung machine	[221]
2007	King C. Gillette	1855	1932	Safety razor	[222]
1990	Charles Ginsburg	1920	1992	Video tape recording	[223]
2006	Joseph Glidden	1813	1906	Barbed wire	[224]
1979	Robert H. Goddard	1882	1945	Solid fuel rockets	[225]
2007	William Goddard	1913	1997	Hard drive and floppy disk	[226]
2005	Leopold Godowsky, Jr.	1900	1983	Kodachrome	[227]
2007	Peter Carl Goldmark	1906	1977	Long playing record	[228]
2011	Hannibal Goodwin	1822	1900	Transparent flexible nitrocellulose	[229]
1976	Charles Goodyear	1800	1860	Vulcanization of rubber	[230]
2006	Robert W. Gore	1937	—	Gore-Tex	[231]
1991	Gordon Gould	1920	2005	Optically pumped laser amplifier	[232]
2006	Zénobe Gramme	1826	1901	Direct-current dynamo	[233]
2007	Elisha Gray	1835	1901	Telegraph and telephone improvements	[234]
1986	Wilson Greatbatch	1919	2011	Heart pacemaker	[235]
1991	Leonard Greene	1918	2006	Aircraft stall warning	[236]
2003	Leroy Grumman	1895	1982	Retractable landing gear, folding wing	[237]
2005	Robert Gundlach	1926	2010	Photocopier	[238]
2015	Jaap Haartsen	1963	—	Bluetooth wireless technology	[239]
2006	Fritz Haber	1868	1934	Ammonia production process	[240]
1976	Charles Martin Hall	1863	1914	Aluminum production process	[241]
2004	Lloyd Hall	1894	1971	Food preservation	[242]
1994	Robert N. Hall	1919	2016	Magnetron	[243]
2007	Thomas Seavey Hall	1827	1880	Railroad signal	[244]
2010	Tracy Hall	1919	2008	Synthetic diamond	[245]
2006	Andrew Smith Hallidie	1836	1900	Cable car	[246]
2014	Francis E. Hamilton	1898	1972	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	[247]
2011	John Hays Hammond, Jr.	1888	1965	Radio control	[248]
1991	William Edward Hanford	1908	1996	Polyurethane	[249]
2017	Eli Harari	1945	—	Floating-gate EEPROM	[250]
2010	Walter Lincoln Hawkins	1911	1992	Polymer cable sheath	[251]
1994	Elizabeth Lee Hazen	1885	1975	Nystatin (antifungal / antibiotic)	[252]
2017	Howard Head	1914	1991	Laminated ski; oversized tennis racket	[253]
2002	M. Stephen Heilman	1933	—	Defibrillator	[254]
2009	George H. Heilmeier*	1936	2014	Electro-optic liquid crystal device	[255]
2011	Martin Hellman	1945	—	Public-key cryptography	[256]
2011	François Hennebique	1842	1921	Reinforced concrete construction	[257]
2006	Beulah Louise Henry	1887	1973	Ice cream freezer	[258]
2011	Peter Cooper Hewitt	1861	1921	Mercury-vapor lamp	[259]
1992	William Redington Hewlett	1913	2001	Audio signals	[260]
2017	Beatrice Hicks	1919	1979	Device for sensing gas density	[261]
2019	Andrew Higgins	1886	1952	Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP)	[262]
1985	Rene Alphonse Higonnet	1902	1983	Phototypesetting machine	[263]
2007	Maurice Hilleman	1919	2005	Vaccines	[264]
1980	James Hillier	1915	2007	Electron microscope	[265]
2006	Richard March Hoe	1812	1886	Rotary printing press	[266]
2009	Jean Hoerni	1924	1997	Planar manufacturing process	[267]
1996	Marcian Hoff	1937	—	Microprocessor	[268]
2002	Felix Hoffmann	1868	1946	Aspirin	[269]
2001	J. Paul Hogan	1919	2012	Polypropylene and HDPE	[270]
2007	John Philip Holland	1841	1914	Submarine	[271]
1990	Herman Hollerith	1860	1929	Machine-readable recording data, punched card, tabulator	[272]
2006	Alexander Lyman Holley	1832	1882	Steelmaking	[273]
2006	Birdsill Holly	1820	1894	Fire hydrant	[274]
1991	Donald F. Holmes	1910	1980	Polyurethane	[275]
2008	Nick Holonyak*	1928	—	visible light emitting diode	[276]
2006	Benjamin Holt	1849	1920	Track-type tractor	[277]
2018	Stan Honey	1955	—	Sports broadcast graphic enhancements	[278]
2007	Leroy Hood	1938	—	DNA sequencer	[279]
2008	Erna Schneider Hoover	1926	—	Computerized telephone switching	[280]
2009	Larry J. Hornbeck	1943	—	Spatial light modulator and method	[281]
1990	Eugene Houdry	1892	1962	Catalytic cracking	[282]
2007	Godfrey Hounsfield	1919	2004	CAT scanner	[283]
2004	Elias Howe	1819	1867	Sewing machine	[284]
2006	George Hulett	1846	1923	Loading and unloading machine	[285]
2014	Chuck Hull	1939	—	Stereolithography	[286]
2006	Walter Hunt	1796	1859	Safety pin	[287]
2006	John Wesley Hyatt	1837	1920	Celluloid	[288]
2000	James Franklin Hyde	1903	1999	Transparent silica	[289]
2006	Simon Ingersoll	1818	1894	Steam powered rock drill	[290]
2011	Frederic Eugene Ives	1856	1937	Color photography	[291]
2013	Irwin M. Jacobs	1933	—	Spread spectrum multiple access communication system	[292]
2016	Joseph Jacobson	1965	—	Electronic ink	[293]
2006	Ali Javan	1926	2016	Helium-neon laser	[294]
2017	Allene Jeanes	1906	1995	Dextran production; xanthan gum	[295]
2005	Alec Jeffreys	1950	—	Genetic fingerprinting	[296]
2011	Charles Francis Jenkins	1867	1934	Movie projector	[297]
2015	Thomas Jennings	1791	1859	Dry scouring	[298]
2012	Steve Jobs	1955	2011	Personal computer, mobile phone, animated movie, digital publishing	[299]
2008	Amos E. Joel, Jr.*	1918	2008	Switching concept for cellular phones	[300]
2008	Clarence Johnson	1910	1990	Fighter jet, afterburning means for Turbojet	[301]
2015	Kristina M. Johnson	1957	—	Polarization-control technology	[302]
2018	Warren S. Johnson	1847	1911	Temperature control	[303]
2007	Frederick McKinley Jones	1893	1961	Refrigeration	[304]
2018	Howard S. Jones	1921	2005	Conformal antenna	[305]
2017	Marshall Jones	1941	—	Industrial laser	[306]
2013	Kenneth Jordan	1921	2008	Radioisotope thermoelectric generator	[307]
1990	Percy Lavon Julian	1899	1975	Cortisone synthesis	[308]
2006	Bob Kahn	1938	—	Internet Protocol (IP)	[309]
2009	Dawon Kahng	1931	1992	Electric field controlled semiconductor device, MOSFET transistor	[310]
2003	Charles Kaman	1919	2011	Innovations to helicopter	[311]
2005	Dean Kamen	1951	—	Ambulatory infusion pump	[312]
2016	Sheldon Kaplan	1939	2009	Auto-injector	[313]
1993	Donald Keck	1941	—	Optical fiber	[314]
2006	John Harvey Kellogg	1852	1943	Breakfast cereal	[315]
2004	Charles Kelman	1930	2004	Cataract surgery	[316]
2011	Clarence Kemp	c. 1860	1911	Solar water heater	[317]
1980	Charles F. Kettering	1876	1958	Electric ignition	[318]
2006	Mary Dixon Kies	1752	1837	Process for weaving straw	[319]
1982	Jack Kilby*	1923	2005	Integrated circuit	[320]
2007	Albert Kingsbury	1863	1943	Thrust bearing	[321]
2006	Dale Kleist	1909	1998	Fiberglass	[322]
2006	Margaret E. Knight	1838	1914	Paper bag machine	[323]
2019	Jeff Kodosky	1949	—	LabVIEW	[324]
1985	Willem Johan Kolff	1911	2009	Artificial heart	[325]
2003	Paul Kollsman	1900	1982	Altimeter	[326]
2000	William Justin Kroll	1889	1973	Titanium	[327]
2002	Raymond Kurzweil	1948	—	Optical character recognition	[328]
1995	Stephanie Kwolek	1923	2014	Kevlar	[329]
2002	Irwin Lachman	1930	—	Catalytic converter	[330]
2014	Clair Lake	1888	1958	Automatic sequence controlled calculator (Harvard Mark I)	[331]
2014	Hedy Lamarr	1914	2000	Frequency-hopping spread spectrum	[332]
1977	Edwin H. Land	1909	1991	Polaroid	[333]
2002	Alois Langer	1945	—	Defibrillator	[334]
2006	Robert S. Langer	1948	—	Drug delivery	[335]
1989	Irving Langmuir	1881	1957	Electric lighting	[336]
2007	L. L. Langstroth	1810	1895	Beehive	[337]
2010	Vincent Lanza	1922	1972	Polymer cable sheath	[338]
2006	Lewis Howard Latimer	1848	1928	Filament for electric light bulb	[339]
2007	Paul Lauterbur*	1929	2007	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)	[340]
1982	Ernest Lawrence	1901	1958	Cyclotron	[341]
2016	Victor Lawrence	1945	—	Signal processing in telecommunications	[342]
1993	Bill Lear	1902	1978	8-track system, car radio	[343]
2013	Joseph Lechleider	1933	2015	Digital subscriber line (DSL)	[344]
1990	Robert Ledley	1926	2012	Whole-body CAT scan	[345]
2019	Joseph Lee	1849	1908	Bread machine	[346]
2017	Tom Leighton	1956	—	Content delivery network	[347]
2011	Henry M. Leland	1843	1932	Interchangeable parts for automobiles	[348]
2017	Daniel Lewin	1970	2001	Content delivery network	[349]
2002	Ronald M. Lewis	1936	—	Catalytic converter	[350]
2020	Ming-Jun Li	1959	—	Bend-insensitive optical fiber	[351]
2017	Frances Ligler	1951	—	Portable optical air sensor	[352]
2020	Lisa Lindahl	1948	—	Sports bra	[353]
2003	Edwin Albert Link	1904	1981	Link Trainer	[354]
2012	Barbara Liskov	1939	—	Programming Languages and System Design	[355]
2007	Oliver Lodge	1851	1940	Wireless telegraphy	[356]
2013	Alfred Loomis	1887	1975	Long range navigation system (LORAN)	[357]
2007	Auguste Lumière	1862	1954	Cinématographe	[358]
2007	Louis Lumière	1864	1948	Cinématographe	[359]
2007	John Lynott	1921	1994	Hard drive	[360]
2015	Paul B. MacCready	1925	2007	Gossamer Condor	[361]
2009	John MacDougall	1940	—	Ion implantation	[362]
2011	Stanley Macomber	1887	1967	Open web steel joist	[363]
1984	Theodore Harold Maiman	1927	2007	Laser	[364]
2009	Ken Manchester	1925	2014	Ion implantation	[365]
2005	Leopold Mannes	1899	1964	Kodachrome	[366]
2007	Peter Mansfield	1933	2017	Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)	[367]
1975	Guglielmo Marconi*	1874	1937	Radio	[368]
2011	Warren Marrison	1896	1980	Quartz clock	[369]
1999	Homer Martin	1910	1993	Catalytic cracking	[370]
2006	John Landis Mason	1832	1902	Mason jar	[371]
2006	Jan Ernst Matzeliger	1852	1889	Shoe lasting	[372]
2002	John Mauchly	1907	1980	ENIAC	[373]
1993	Robert D. Maurer	1924	—	Optical fiber	[374]
2006	Hiram Stevens Maxim	1840	1916	Maxim gun, smokeless gunpowder	[375]
2007	Wilhelm Maybach	1846	1929	Carburetor and radiator	[376]
1996	Stanley Mazor	1941	—	Central processing unit (CPU)	[377]
1976	Cyrus McCormick	1809	1884	Mechanical reaper	[378]
2001	Elijah McCoy	1844	1929	Engine lubricator	[379]
2020	James McEwen	1948	—	Automatic surgical tourniquet	[380]
2008	Ray McIntire	1918	1996	Styrofoam	[381]
2008	Malcom McLean	1913	2001	Shipping containers	[382]
2008	Harold McMaster	1916	2003	Tempered glass	[383]
2009	Carver Mead	1934	—	Very large scale integration (VLSI)	[384]
1982	Ottmar Mergenthaler	1854	1899	Linotype	[385]
2011	Ralph Merkle	1952	—	Public-key cryptography	[386]
2007	Robert Metcalfe*	1946	—	Ethernet	[387]
2011	Gary K. Michelson	1949	—	Spinal surgical devices	[388]
2003	Thomas Midgley, Jr.	1889	1944	Ethyl gasoline, fluorocarbon refrigerants	[389]
2007	Alexander Miles	1838	1918	Elevator doors	[390]
2020	Hinda Miller	1950	—	Sports bra	[391]
2006	Lewis Miller	1829	1899	Combine harvester	[392]
1993	Irving Millman	1923	2012	Vaccine for hepatitis B	[393]
2002	Michel Mirowski	1924	1990	Defibrillator	[394]
2018	Sumita Mitra	1949	—	Nanocomposite dental materials	[395]
1997	Dennis L. Moeller	1950	—	Computer peripherals	[396]
1999	Bryan Molloy	1939	2004	Prozac	[397]
2004	Luc Montagnier	1932	—	HIV isolation and antibody test	[398]
2013	Robert Moog	1934	2005	Moog synthesizer	[399]
2009	Gordon Moore*	1929	—	Semiconductor production	[400]
2005	Garrett A. Morgan	1887	1963	Gas mask, three-way traffic signal	[401]
1975	Samuel Morse	1791	1872	Telegraph	[402]
2020	Mick Mountz	1965	—	Mobile robotic material handling	[403]
2002	Morton Mower	1933	—	Implantable heart defibrillator	[404]
1987	Andrew J. Moyer	1899	1959	Penicillin	[405]
1985	Louis Marius Moyroud	1914	2010	Photograph composition	[406]
2019	Joseph Muhler	1923	1996	Stannous fluoride toothpaste	[407]
1998	Kary Mullis	1944	2019	Polymerase chain reaction	[408]
1999	Eger V. Murphree	1898	1962	Catalytic cracking	[409]
2008	William P. Murphy Jr.	1923	—	Blood bag and disposable medical trays	[410]
2011	Thomas E. Murray	1860	1929	Early power generation	[411]
2011	Eadweard Muybridge	1830	1904	Stop action photography	[412]
2015	Shuji Nakamura	1954	—	Blue LED	[413]
2019	William Nebergall	1914	1978	Stannous fluoride toothpaste	[414]
2011	Walther Nernst	1864	1941	Metallic filament incandescent lamp	[415]
2020	John Nicholson	1925	1983	Ibuprofen	[416]
1996	Julius Nieuwland	1878	1936	Synthetic rubber	[417]
1998	Alfred Nobel	1833	1896	Dynamite	[418]
2007	Arthur Nobile	1920	2004	Prednisone	[419]
2003	John Knudsen Northrop	1895	1981	Flying wing plane	[420]
2019	Frederick Novello	1916	1986	Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide)	[421]
1983	Robert Noyce*	1927	1990	Integrated circuit	[422]
2004	Bernard M. Oliver	1916	1995	Pulse code modulation	[423]
1990	Ken Olsen	1926	2011	Magnetic core memory	[424]
2007	Miguel Ondetti	1930	2004	Captopril	[425]
1988	Elisha Otis	1811	1861	Elevator brake	[426]
1981	Nicolaus Otto	1832	1891	Otto cycle for internal combustion engine	[427]
2015	Stanford R. Ovshinsky	1922	2012	Nickel-metal hydride battery	[428]
2007	Michael Joseph Owens	1859	1923	Bottle making machine	[429]
2006	Charles Grafton Page	1812	1868	High-voltage induction coil	[430]
2006	William Painter	1838	1906	Bottle cap	[431]
2008	David Pall	1914	2004	Filtration technology	[432]
2006	Julio Palmaz	1945	—	Intravascular stent	[433]
1988	Louis W. Parker	1906	1993	Television receiver	[434]
2004	Bradford Parkinson	1935	—	Global positioning system (GPS)	[435]
1993	John T. Parsons	1913	2007	Numerical control	[436]
1978	Louis Pasteur	1822	1895	Pasteurization	[437]
2012	C. Kumar N. Patel*	1938	—	Carbon dioxide laser	[438]
2005	Les Paul	1915	2009	Solid-body electric guitar	[439]
2018	Arogyaswami Paulraj	1944	—	MIMO wireless technology	[440]
2008	Gerald Pearson	1905	1987	Silicon solar cell	[441]
2006	Lester Allan Pelton	1829	1908	Water wheel	[442]
2018	Mary Engle Pennington	1872	1952	Food preservation and food storage	[443]
2016	Radia Perlman	1951	—	Network routing and bridging	[444]
2011	Henry F. Phillips	1890	1958	Phillips screw	[445]
2007	Thomas R. Pickering	1831	1895	Velocipede	[446]
2003	John R. Pierce*	1910	2002	Communications satellite	[447]
2006	Gregory Goodwin Pincus	1903	1967	Oral contraceptives	[448]
1979	Charles J. Plank	1915	1989	Catalytic cracking	[449]
1985	Roy J. Plunkett	1910	1994	Teflon	[450]
2011	Valdemar Poulsen	1869	1942	Magnetic wire recorder	[451]
2006	George Pullman	1831	1897	Pullman car	[452]
2011	Mihajlo Pupin	1858	1935	Loading coil	[453]
2018	Jacqueline Quinn	1967	—	EZVI (Emulsified Zerovalent iron)	[454]
2005	Jacob Rabinow	1910	1999	Optical character recognition	[455]
2013	Grote Reber	1911	2002	Radio telescope	[456]
2006	Louis Renault	1877	1944	Drum brake	[457]
2007	Jesse W. Reno	1861	1947	Escalator	[458]
2019	Rebecca Richards-Kortum	1964	—	Medical devices for low-resource settings	[459]
2008	Kenneth Richardson	1939	—	Fluconazole	[460]
2004	Norbert Rillieux	1806	1894	Refined sugar	[461]
1994	Robert H. Rines	1922	2009	High resolution radar and sonar	[462]
2019	Dennis Ritchie	1941	2011	UNIX operating system	[463]
2011	James Ritty	1836	1918	Cash register	[464]
2011	John Ritty	1834	1913	Cash register	[465]
2018	Ronald Rivest	1947	—	RSA cryptography	[466]
2004	John A. Roebling	1806	1869	Suspension bridge	[467]
2007	John Raphael Rogers	1856	1934	Automated typesetting	[468]
1994	Heinrich Rohrer	1933	2013	Scanning tunneling microscope	[469]
2012	Lubomyr Romankiw	1931	—	Thin film magnetic heads	[470]
2003	Harold Rosen	1926	2017	Geosynchronous communications satellite	[471]
1979	Edward J. Rosinski	1921	2000	Catalytic cracking	[472]
1992	Benjamin Rubin	1917	2010	Vaccine needle	[473]
2011	Wallace Clement Sabine	1868	1919	Architectural acoustics	[474]
2017	Augustine Sackett	1841	1914	Drywall	[475]
2013	Aran Safir	1926	2007	Iris recognition algorithm	[476]
1980	Lewis Hastings Sarett	1917	1999	Cortisone	[477]
2011	Steven Sasson	1950	—	Digital camera	[478]
2006	Joseph Saxton	1799	1873	Measuring instruments	[479]
1996	Arthur Leonard Schawlow	1921	1999	Laser	[480]
1999	Klaus Schmiegel	1939	—	Prozac	[481]
1993	Peter C. Schultz	1942	—	Optical fiber	[482]
2019	Edmund O. Schweitzer III	1947	—	Digital protective relay	[483]
2005	Glenn T. Seaborg	1912	1999	Plutonium isolation	[484]
2007	Charles Seeberger	1857	1931	Escalator	[485]
1995	Robert J. Seiwald	1925	—	Isothiocyanates	[486]
2007	William Sellers	1824	1905	Improvement in machine tools	[487]
1995	Waldo Semon	1898	1999	Polyvinyl chloride	[488]
1999	Gerhard M. Sessler	1931	—	Electret microphone	[489]
2018	Adi Shamir	1952	—	RSA cryptography	[490]
2004	Claude Shannon*	1916	2001	Pulse code modulation	[491]
2015	Gary D. Sharp	1962	—	Polarization-control technology	[492]
1995	John C. Sheehan	1915	1992	Structure and synthesis of penicillin	[493]
2001	Patsy O'Connell Sherman	1930	2008	Scotchgard	[494]
2018	Joseph Shivers	1920	2014	LYCRA fiber (Spandex)	[495]
1974	William Shockley	1910	1989	Transistor	[496]
2001	Christopher Latham Sholes	1819	1890	Typewriter	[497]
2007	Frederick Ellsworth Sickels	1819	1895	Valve for steam engine	[498]
1987	Igor Sikorsky	1889	1972	Helicopter	[499]
2016	John Silliker	1922	2015	Microbiological food safety and testing	[500]
2011	Bernard Silver	1924	1963	First optically scanned barcode	[501]
2010	Spencer Silver	1941	—	Post-it notes	[502]
2020	Edward Sisler	1930	2016	1-Methylcyclopropene (1-MCP)	[503]
2007	Samuel Slater	1768	1835	Cotton mill, spinning machine	[504]
2006	Games Slayter	1896	1964	Fiberglass	[505]
2013	H. Gene Slottow	1921	1989	Plasma display	[506]
2020	Floyd Smith	1884	1956	Modern parachute	[507]
2006	George E. Smith	1930	—	Charge-coupled device	[508]
2020	Polly Smith	1949	—	Sports bra	[509]
2001	Samuel Smith	1927	2005	Scotchgard	[510]
2006	James M. Spangler	1848	1915	Portable electric vacuum cleaner	[511]
2016	William Sparks	1905	1976	Butyl rubber	[512]
1999	Percy Spencer	1894	1970	Magnetron	[513]
1991	Elmer Ambrose Sperry	1860	1930	Gyroscopic compass	[514]
2006	Frank J. Sprague	1857	1934	Electric street car	[515]
2019	James Sprague	1909	2000	Thiazide diuretics (Chlorothiazide)	[516]
2002	Rangaswamy Srinivasan	1929	—	LASIK eye surgery	[517]
1995	William Stanley, Jr.	1858	1916	Induction coil	[518]
2012	Gary Starkweather	1938	2019	Laser printer	[519]
1977	Charles Steinmetz	1865	1923	Alternating current	[520]
2005	Leo Sternbach	1908	2005	Benzodiazepines	[521]
2006	John Stevens	1749	1838	Steam-powered transportation	[522]
2008	Louis Stevens	1925	2009	Magnetic disk storage	[523]
1983	George Stibitz	1904	1995	Digital computer	[524]
2010	S. Donald Stookey	1915	2014	Glass ceramics	[525]
2016	Harriet Strong	1844	1926	Water storage and flood control	[526]
2010	Herbert M. Strong	1908	2002	Synthetic diamond	[527]
2006	Almon Brown Strowger	1839	1902	Telephone dial	[528]
2011	Eugene Sullivan	1872	1962	Borosilicate glass	[529]
2006	Gideon Sundback	1880	1954	Zipper	[530]
2016	Ivan Sutherland	1938	—	Display windowing by clipping	[531]
2006	Ambrose Swasey	1846	1937	Improvements to telescope	[532]
1996	Leó Szilárd	1898	1964	Neutronic atomic reactor	[533]
1986	Donalee L. Tabern	1900	1974	Pentothal	[534]
2006	Charles Sumner Tainter	1854	1940	Innovations in sound recording	[535]
2011	Esther Sans Takeuchi	1953	—	Lithium/silver-vanadium oxide battery	[536]
2020	Pushkar Tandon	1967	—	Bend-insensitive optical fiber	[537]
2018	Ching W. Tang	1947	—	Organic light-emitting diode (OLED)	[538]
2016	Welton Taylor	1919	2012	Microbiological food safety and testing	[539]
2009	Gordon Kidd Teal*	1907	2003	Silicon transistor	[540]
2012	Mária Telkes*	1900	1995	Solar thermal storage system	[541]
2018	Paul Terasaki	1929	2016	Tissue typing for organ transplants, Terasaki tray	[542]
2007	Eli Terry	1772	1852	Innovations in clockmaking	[543]
1975	Nikola Tesla	1856	1943	Induction motor	[544]
2006	John H. Thomas	1907	1991	Fiberglass	[545]
2016	Robert M. Thomas	1908	1984	Butyl rubber	[546]
2012	David A. Thompson	1940	—	Thin film magnetic heads	[547]
2019	Ken Thompson	1943	—	UNIX operating system	[548]
2006	Elihu Thomson	1853	1937	Arc lamp	[549]
2007	Louis Comfort Tiffany	1848	1933	Stained glass	[550]
1998	Henry Timken	1831	1909	Tapered roller ball bearings	[551]
1982	Max Tishler	1906	1989	Synthetic vitamins	[552]
1976	Charles Hard Townes*	1915	2015	Laser	[553]
2019	James Truchard	1943	—	LabVIEW	[554]
1999	Charlie Tyson	1905	1977	Catalytic cracking	[555]
2006	William E. Upjohn	1853	1932	Tablet for delivering medicine	[556]
2007	Theophilus Van Kannel	1841	1919	Revolving door	[557]
2018	Steven Van Slyke	1956	—	Organic light-emitting diode (OLED)	[558]
2013	Andrew Viterbi	1935	—	Spread spectrum multiple access communication system	[559]
1986	Ernest H. Volwiler	1893	1992	Pentothal	[560]
2003	Theodore von Kármán	1881	1963	Turbojet	[561]
2003	Hans von Ohain	1911	1998	Turbojet	[562]
2011	Carl Auer von Welsbach	1858	1929	Improvements to gas lighting	[563]
2019	David Wait	1953	—	Microarray	[564]
2005	Selman Waksman	1888	1973	Streptomycin	[565]
1988	An Wang	1920	1990	Magnetic core memory	[566]
2009	Frank Wanlass	1933	2010	Low stand-by power complementary field effect circuitry	[567]
2019	William J. Warner	1955	—	Digital non-linear editing system	[568]
2006	Lewis Waterman	1837	1901	Fountain pen	[569]
2011	Thomas A. Watson	1854	1934	Improvements to telephone	[570]
2010	Robert H. Wentorf, Jr.	1926	1997	Synthetic diamond	[571]
1999	James Edward Maceo West	1931	—	Electret microphone	[572]
1989	George Westinghouse	1846	1914	Air brake system	[573]
2006	Edward Weston	1850	1936	Portable voltmeter	[574]
2007	Squire Whipple	1804	1888	Iron truss bridge	[575]
2003	Richard T. Whitcomb	1921	2009	Supercritical wing	[576]
2011	Rollin H. White	1872	1962	Flash boiler for generating steam-controlled differential steering	[577]
2014	Willis Whitfield	1919	2012	Clean room	[578]
1974	Eli Whitney	1765	1825	Cotton gin	[579]
2003	Frank Whittle	1907	1996	Jet engine	[580]
2007	Otto Wichterle	1913	1998	Soft contact lens	[581]
2009	Bob Widlar	1937	1991	Biasing scheme especially suited for integrated circuits	[582]
1997	Stephen Wilcox	1830	1893	Steam generator	[583]
1991	Robert R. Williams	1886	1965	Vitamin synthesis	[584]
2003	Sam B. Williams	1921	2009	Contributions to jet engine	[585]
2013	Robert Willson	1936	—	Plasma display	[586]
2010	Field H. Winslow	1916	2009	Polymer cable sheath	[587]
2006	Alexander Winton	1860	1932	Contributions to automobile, bicycle, and diesel engine	[588]
2011	Norman Joseph Woodland	1921	2012	First optically scanned barcode	[589]
2006	Granville Woods	1856	1910	Railroad telegraph	[590]
2000	Steve Wozniak	1950	—	Personal computer	[591]
1975	Orville Wright	1871	1948	Airplane	[592]
1975	Wilbur Wright	1867	1912	Airplane	[593]
2020	Margaret Wu	1950	—	Synthetic lubricants	[594]
2020	Peter Wurman	1965	—	Mobile robotic material handling	[595]
2002	James J. Wynne	1943	—	LASIK eye surgery	[596]
2006	Linus Yale, Jr.	1821	1868	Cylinder lock	[597]
2015	Ioannis Yannas	1935	—	Artificial skin	[598]
2012	Alejandro Zaffaroni	1923	2014	Drug delivery systems	[599]
2007	Frank Zamboni	1901	1988	Ice resurfacer	[600]
2006	Ferdinand von Zeppelin	1838	1917	Rigid airship	[601]
1977	Vladimir K. Zworykin*	1888	1982	Cathode-ray tube	[602]
2020	Frank Zybach	1894	1980	Center-pivot irrigation	[603]

External links

• The official website of the National Inventors Hall of Fame