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The National Inventors Hall of Fame

The Inventors Hall of Fame, located in Akron, Ohio, was established in 1973 by the National Council of Patent Law Associations, now the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations, and the Patent and Trademark Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The year of induction is in parentheses at the end of the entry.

Edward Goodrich Acheson

Ernst Alexanderson

Luis Walter Alvarez

Edwin Armstrong

George H. Babcock

Leo Hendrik Baekeland

Matthias Baldwin

Frederick Banting

C. Donald Bateman

Arnold O. Beckman

S. Joseph Begun

Alexander Graham Bell

Willard Harrison Bennett

Gerd Karl Binnig

Clarence Birdseye

Harold Stephen Black

Baruch Blumberg

Robert W. Bower

Herbert W. Boyer

Walter H. Brattain

Rachel Fuller Brown

Joseph H. Burckhalter

William Seward Burroughs

William Meriam Burton

Chester F. Carlson

Wallace Hume Carothers

Willis Haviland Carrier

George Carruthers

George Washington Carver

Frank Cepollina

Emmett Chappelle

Stanley N. Cohen

Frank B. Colton

Lloyd H. Conover

William D. Coolidge

Frederick G. Cottrell

Wallace Coulter

Raymond V. Damadian

Robert Heath Dennard

Herbert Henry Dow

Charles Stark Draper

Graham J. Durant

John Presper Eckert, Jr.

Harold E. Edgerton

Thomas Alva Edison

Willem Einthoven

Gertrude Belle Elion

John Colin Emmett

Douglas Engelbart

Lloyd Espenschied

Federico Faggin

Philo Taylor Farnsworth

James L. Fergason

Reginald A. Fessenden

Thomas J. Fogarty

Jay W. Forrester

Helen Murray Free

C. Robin Ganellin

Charles P. Ginsburg

Robert Hutchings Goddard

William Goddard

Leopold Godowsky, Jr.

Charles Goodyear

Wilson Greatbatch

Leonard Michael Greene

Robert Gundlach

Charles Martin Hall

William Edward Hanford

Elizabeth Lee Hazen

M. Stephen Heilman

William R. Hewlett

Rene Alphonse Higonnet

Maurice Hilleman

Marcian Edward Hoff“Ted”, Jr.

John Paul Hogan

Herman Hollerith

Donald Fletcher Holmes

Godfrey Hounsfield

J. Franklin Hyde

Clarence Johnson

Percy Lavon Julian

Charles D. Kelman

Charles Franklin Kettering

Willem J. Kolff

William J. Kroll

Raymond Kurzweil

Stephanie Louise Kwolek

Robert Langer, Jr.

Irving Langmuir

Ernest Orlando Lawrence

Robert S. Ledley

Theodore Harold Maiman

Peter Mansfield

Guglielmo Marconi

Cyrus McCormick

Elijah J. McCoy

Harold McMaster

Ottmar Mergenthaler

Robert Metcalfe

Michel Mirowski

Samuel F.B. Morse

Andrew J. Moyer

Louis Marius Moyroud

Kary Banks Mullis

Rev. Julius A. Nieuwland

Robert N. Noyce

Kenneth H. Olsen

Elisha Graves Otis

Nicolaus August Otto

Louis W. Parker

Bradford Parkinson

John T. Parsons

Charles J. Plank

Roy J. Plunkett

Kenneth Richardson

Norbert Rillieux

Robert H. Rines

Heinrich Rohrer

Edward J. Rosinski

Benjamin A. Rubin

Lewis Hastings Sarett

Arthur L. Schawlow

Glenn T. Seaborg

Robert J. Seiwald

John C. Sheehan

Patsy O. Sherman

William Bradford Shockley

Christopher L. Sholes

Igor I. Sikorsky

Elmer Ambrose Sperry

Rangaswamy Srinivasan

William Jr. Stanley

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

George R. Stibitz

Donalee L. Tabern

Charles Hard Townes

Ernest H. Volwiler

George Westinghouse

Robert R.Williams, Jr.

Granville Woods

Vladimir Kosma Zworykin

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