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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
Robert Adler
Herman Affel
Ernst Alexanderson
Andrew Alford
Luis Walter Alvarez
Edwin Armstrong
George H. Babcock
Leo Hendrik Baekeland
Rodney Bagley
Matthias Baldwin
Robert Banks
Frederick Banting
Paul Baran
John Bardeen
C. Donald Bateman
Arnold O. Beckman
S. Joseph Begun
Alexander Graham Bell
Ruth Benerito
Willard Harrison Bennett
Emile Berliner
Henry Bessemer
Charles Best
Gerd Karl Binnig
Forest M. Bird
Clarence Birdseye
Harold Stephen Black
Samuel Blum
Baruch Blumberg
Nils Bohlin
Karl Bosch
Amar Bose
Robert W. Bower
Herbert W. Boyer
Willard Boyle
Walter H. Brattain
Rachel Fuller Brown
Luther Burbank
Joseph H. Burckhalter
William Seward Burroughs
William Meriam Burton
Vannevar Bush
Marvin Camras
Chester F. Carlson
Wallace Hume Carothers
Willis Haviland Carrier
George Carruthers
George Washington Carver
Frank Cepollina
Vinton Cerf
Daryl Chapin
Emmett Chappelle
John Charnley
Stanley N. Cohen
Frank B. Colton
James Collip
Lloyd H. Conover
William D. Coolidge
Harry Coover
Frederick G. Cottrell
Wallace Coulter
Seymour Cray
Glenn Curtiss
David Cushman
Raymond V. Damadian
Donald Davies
Mark Dean
John Deere
Lee de Forest
Robert Heath Dennard
Rudolf Diesel
Walt Disney
Carl Djerassi
Ray Dolby
Herbert Henry Dow
Charles Stark Draper
Graham J. Durant
George Eastman
John Presper Eckert, Jr.
Harold E. Edgerton
Thomas Alva Edison
Willem Einthoven
Gertrude Belle Elion
John Colin Emmett
Douglas Engelbart
John Ericsson
Lloyd Espenschied
Oliver Evans
Maxime Faget
Federico Faggin
Philo Taylor Farnsworth
James L. Fergason
Enrico Fermi
Reginald A. Fessenden
Edith Flanigen
Thomas J. Fogarty
Henry Ford
Jay W. Forrester
John Franz
Alfred Free
Helen Murray Free
Calvin Fuller
Robert Gallo
C. Robin Ganellin
Edmund Germer
Ivan Getting
John Gibbon
Charles P. Ginsburg
Robert Hutchings Goddard
William Goddard
Leopold Godowsky, Jr.
Peter Goldmark
Charles Goodyear
Robert Gore
Gordon Gould
Wilson Greatbatch
Leonard Michael Greene
Leroy Grumman
Robert Gundlach
Fritz Haber
Charles Martin Hall
Lloyd Hall
Robert N. Hall
William Edward Hanford
Elizabeth Lee Hazen
M. Stephen Heilman
William R. Hewlett
Rene Alphonse Higonnet
Maurice Hilleman
James Hillier
Richard Hoe
Marcian Edward Hoff“Ted”, Jr.
Felix Hoffmann
John Paul Hogan
Herman Hollerith
Donald Fletcher Holmes
Nick Holoynak
Benjamin Holt
Leroy Hood
Erna Hoover
Eugene Houdry
Godfrey Hounsfield
Elias Howe
J. Franklin Hyde
Ali Javan
Alec Jeffreys
Amos Joel
Clarence Johnson
Percy Lavon Julian
Robert Kahn
Charles Kaman
Dean Kamen
Donald Keck
Charles D. Kelman
Charles Franklin Kettering
Jack S. Kilby
Dale Kleist
Willem J. Kolff
Paul Kollsman
William J. Kroll
Raymond Kurzweil
Stephanie Louise Kwolek
Irwin Lachman
Edwin Land
Alois Langer
Robert Langer, Jr.
Irving Langmuir
Paul Lauterbur
Ernest Orlando Lawrence
William Lear
Robert S. Ledley
Ronald Lewis
Edwin A. Link
John Lynott
Theodore Harold Maiman
Leopold Mannes
Peter Mansfield
Guglielmo Marconi
John Mauchly
Robert Maurer
Stanley Mazor
Cyrus McCormick
Elijah J. McCoy
Ray McIntire
Malcom McLean
Harold McMaster
Ottmar Mergenthaler
Robert Metcalfe
Irving Millman
Michel Mirowski
Dennis Moeller
Luc Montagnier
Garrett Morgan
Samuel F.B. Morse
Morton Mower
Andrew J. Moyer
Louis Marius Moyroud
Kary Banks Mullis
William Murphy
Rev. Julius A. Nieuwland
Alfred Nobel
Arthur Nobile
Robert N. Noyce
Bernard Oliver
Kenneth H. Olsen
Miguel Ondetti
Elisha Graves Otis
Nicolaus August Otto
David Pall
Julio Palmaz
Louis W. Parker
Bradford Parkinson
John T. Parsons
Louis Pasteur
Les Paul
Gerald Pearson
Gregory Pincus
Charles J. Plank
Roy J. Plunkett
Jacob Rabinow
Kenneth Richardson
Norbert Rillieux
Robert H. Rines
John Roebling
Heinrich Rohrer
Edward J. Rosinski
Benjamin A. Rubin
Lewis Hastings Sarett
Arthur L. Schawlow
Peter Schultz
Glenn T. Seaborg
Robert J. Seiwald
Waldo L. Semon
Claude Shannon
John C. Sheehan
Patsy O. Sherman
William Bradford Shockley
Christopher L. Sholes
Igor I. Sikorsky
Games Slayter
George Smith
Samuel Smith
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
Rangaswamy Srinivasan
William Jr. Stanley
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Leo Sternbach
Louis Stevens
George R. Stibitz
Leo Szilard
Donalee L. Tabern
Nikola Tesla
John Thomas
Elihu Thomson
Henry Timken
Max Tishler
Charles Hard Townes
William Upjohn
Ernest H. Volwiler
Selman Waksman
An Wang
George Westinghouse
Eli Whitney
Otto Wichterle
Stephen Wilcox
Robert R.Williams, Jr.
Granville Woods
Steve Wozniak
Orville Wright
Wilbur Wright
James Wynne
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
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