New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame

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James West (born 1931)
George Elwood Smith (born 1930)
Eugene Irving Gordon (1930–2014)
Selman Abraham Waksman (1888–1973)
Willis Haviland Carrier (1876–1950)
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
Samuel Leeds Allen (1841–1918)
Seth Boyden (1788–1870)

The New Jersey Inventor's Hall of Fame was established in 1987 to honor individuals and corporations in New Jersey for their inventions. Award recipients are recognized at the annual Award Banquet Dinner. The New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame operated from 1987 to 2002 at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, from 2003 to 2007 with support from the Research and Development Council of New Jersey. Starting in 2008 it was under the aegis of Stevens Institute of Technology Office of Academic Entrepreneurship. In 2010, Greenberg Traurig became a co-sponsor of the organization.

Hall of Fame Inductees[edit]

Name Year Invention NJ affiliation
Seth Boyden 1989 malleable iron Newark, New Jersey worked
John Stevens (inventor) 1989 various innovations Hoboken, New Jersey lived
Jan A. Rajchman 1989 read-only memory Radio Corporation of America
Albert Einstein 1989 theoretical physics Institute for Advanced Study
Alfred Vail 1989 telegraph Speedwell Ironworks
Thomas A. Edison 1989 various innovations Edison laboratory
Leo Sternbach 1989 benzodiazepines Hoffman-La Roche
Selman Waksman 1989 streptomycin Rutgers University
Roy Weber 1989 Intelligent Network Services - 800 Number Bell Labs
Vladimir Zworykin 1989 television Radio Corporation of America
Jerome H. Lemelson 1990
Oberlin Smith 1990 magnetic recording Bridgeton, New Jersey lived
Hannibal Goodwin 1990 Newark, New Jersey lived
Edward Weston (chemist) 1990 New Jersey Institute of Technology
Karl G. Jansky 1992 radio telescope Bell Labs
Albert Rose (physicist) 1992 video camera tube Radio Corporation of America
Paul K. Weimer 1992 thin-film transistor Radio Corporation of America
John H. Sinfelt 1992 unleaded gasoline ExxonMobil
James Hillier 1992 electron microscope Radio Corporation of America
Solomon Andrews (inventor) 1992 dirigible Perth Amboy, New Jersey lived
Walter Lincoln Hawkins 1992 Bell Labs
Charles Joseph Fletcher 1993 aerospace innovations Franklin, New Jersey lived
Sidney Pestka 1993 Hoffmann-La Roche
Robert Wendell Lucky 1993 Bell Labs
Walter Brattain 1994 transistor Bell Labs
William Shockley 1994 transistor Bell Labs
John Bardeen 1994 transistor Bell Labs
Glenn Dimmick 1995 Sound Motion Picture Recording RCA
Les Paul 1996 guitar pickup Mahwah, New Jersey lived
Harry F. Olson 1996 Radio Corporation of America
James L. Flanagan 1997 Rutgers University
Richard Howland Ranger 1997 Radio Corporation of America
Alfred Y. Cho 1997 Bell Labs
Allen Balcom DuMont 1998 television DuMont Television Network
William O. Baker 1998 synthetic rubber Bell Labs
Edwin Howard Armstrong 1998 FM radio, regenerative receiver, superheterodyne receiver Alpine, New Jersey worked
Arthur Leonard Schawlow 1999 Bell Labs
Morton A. Kreitchman 1999 fluid control valves Valcor Engineering Corporation
Willis Haviland Carrier 1999 air conditioning Newark, New Jersey worked
Simon Lake 2000 submarine innovations Pleasantville, New Jersey born
Arthur Nobile 2000 prednisone Newark, New Jersey born
Martin Goetz 2000 software Applied Data Research
Lee de Forest 2001 audion tube
Eger V. Murphree 2001 fluid catalytic cracking ExxonMobil
Donald L. Campbell 2001 fluid catalytic cracking ExxonMobil
Arun Netravali 2001 HDTV Bell Labs
Gerald Ash 2001 Dynamic Non-Hierarchical Routing Bell Labs
Herwig Kogelnik 2002 Bell Labs
John Augustus Roebling 2002 suspension bridge innovations Trenton, New Jersey worked
Samuel Leeds Allen 2004 Flexible Flyer Moorestown Township, New Jersey
James M. Early 2004 Early effect Bell Labs
Calvin Souther Fuller 2005 photovoltaics Bell Labs
Gerard A. Alphonse 2005 IEEE
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie 2006 programming languages Bell Labs
Kenneth Lane Thompson 2006 programming languages Bell Labs
Harold Stephen Black 2006 negative feedback amplifier Bell Labs
Henry Orenstein 2006 various toys Topper Toys
James West 2008 electret microphone Bell Labs
Eugene I. Gordon 2008 fiber optics innovations Bell Labs
George E. Smith 2008 charge-coupled device Bell Labs
Willard Boyle 2008 charge-coupled device Bell Labs
Gerhard M. Sessler 2008 electret microphone Bell Labs
Edward C. Taylor 2008 tetracycline Princeton University
Herman Sokol 2009 pemetrexed Bristol-Myers Squibb
Michael Francis Tompsett 2010 First Thermal and Charge Coupled Imager Patents , CCD Cameras and MOS Video ADC Bell Labs
Lynn Schneemeyer 2011 material science innovations Rutgers University
Arthur A. Gertzman 2011 Synthetic Bone Graft Materials, Malleable Paste for Filling Bone Defects Gertzman Enterprises
John Siekierka 2011 Research and Development for Anti-Inflammatory Drug and Delivery Device Bell Labs
William K. Hagmann 2012 medicinal chemistry innovations Merck & Co
Elwin Orton 2012 Breakthroughs and Saving the U.S. Dogwood Industry Rutgers University
Shu- Tung Li 2012 Medical Implants for the Repair and Regeneration of Soft Tissue and Bones Collagen Matrix, Inc.
Endre Alexander Balazs 2012 Orthopedic Research & Groundbreaking Discoveries in Utilizing Hyaluron for Therapeutic Purposes Columbia University Medical Center; Biomatrix, Inc. (NJ Resident)
C. Frank Wheatley Jr. 2013 Power semiconductor devices and integrated circuits and most notably the Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) RCA
Leo Schenker 2013 Patented inventions and discoveries related to touch tone dialing and its immense impact in the public switch telephone network (PSTN) IEEE
Sander G. Mills 2013 Discoveries in cancer research and most notably the substance Aprepitant, which has had worldwide impact in patient compliance/tolerance for chemotherapy and other cancer treatments Merck & Co.
Adel A. Ahmed 2013 Bipolar integrated circuit design and worldwide use of the Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) integrated circuit RCA
Philip Anderson 2013 Elucidating the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, which allowed for the development of electronic switching and memory devices in computers Bell Labs
Jack Craft 2014 TV and radio integrated circuit designs RCA
Rajiv V. Joshi 2014 Development of integrated circuits (IC), memory and predictive analytics Columbia University (NJ Resident)
John R. Pierce 2014 Information theory and global and satellite communications Bell Labs
Vladimir S. Ban 2014 Semi-conductor and optical network technologies RCA
Krishan K. Sabnani 2014 Global communication networks Bell Labs
Nikola Tesla 2014 Patented inventions transforming electrical engineering principles including alternating current (AC) and the radio Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing
Edward Cecelski VCR, metal disk player RCA
Dennis D. Jamiolkowski 2015 Absorbable polymers and their applications in implantable medical and surgical devices Ethicon Inc.
John Fenn 2015 Electrospray Mass Spectrometry (ESMS) technique used in biomedical research Princeton University
Owen O'Connor 2015 Patented work on novel small molecules, including a pioneering drug portfolio for treatment of lymphoma Columbia University (NJ Resident)
George Feldstein 2015 Audio, visual and automation technologies Crestron Electronics
Salvatore Salamone 2016 Oncology research, Therapeutic Diagnostics, health care and medical device services Rutgers University; Saladax Biomedical (NJ Resident)
Yann LeCun 2016 Image and speech recognition and advent of Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) Bell Labs
Donald Landry 2016 Cardiovascular Biology to cancer research Columbia University (NJ Resident)
Howard Fidel 2016 Biomedical device patents and medical ultrasound NJIT

Other Hall of Fame Inductees

Inventors of the Year[edit]

Name Year Invention NJ affiliation
David Cushman 1989 captopril Bristol-Myers Squibb
Miguel Ondetti 1989 captopril Bristol-Myers Squibb
Dave Narasimhan 1989 AlliedSignal
Raymond W. Ketchledge 1989 Bell Labs
Donald L. Klein 1994 Transistor Bell Labs
Liang Tai Wu 1995 Asynchronous Transfer Mode Bell Communications Research
John B. MacChesney 1995 optical communications Bell Labs
James West 1995 electret microphone Bell Labs
Tsong-Ho Wu & Richard Lau 1997 Self-Healing Ring Networks Bell Communications Research
Bishnu Atal 2000 linear predictive coding Bell Labs
Philip Warren Anderson 2001 Bell Labs
Irwin Gerszberg 2002 Innovations in DSL and Telco Plant AT&T Labs
Hossein Eslambolchi 2002 Bell Labs
Robert Morris (cryptographer) 2004 cryptography Bell Labs
Yeheskel Bar-Ness 2006 New Jersey Institute of Technology
Sidney Pestka 2008 interferon Hoffman-La Roche
Gianluca Paladini 2011 volume visualization Siemens
Comaniciu 2011 robust object tracking Siemens
Pal Maliga 2011 chloroplast transformation, plastid transformation Rutgers University[1]
Paula Tallal 2012 educational software innovations Rutgers University[2]
Bruce McNair 2012
Sergei Kotenko 2012
Nirwan Ansari 2012
Nicholi Vorsa 2013
Richard Mammone. 2013
Ximing Guo and Standish, K. Allen Jr. 2013
Joseph Giovannoli 2013
Moon Hae Sunwoo. 2014
Richard E Riman. 2014
Athula B. Attygalle 2014
Raziq Yaqub. 2014
William T. Murphy 2014

Other Inventors of the Year

Innovator Award[edit]

Name Year Field NJ affiliation
Michael L. Recce 2005
Lillian M. Gilbreth 2005 scientific management Montclair, New Jersey
Albert Schatz 2005 streptomycin Rutgers University
John von Neumann 2006 computer science Institute for Advanced Study
Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. 2006 scientific management Montclair, New Jersey
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. 2006 theoretical physics Princeton University
Michael Wong 2008
Ali Abdi 2008
Mohammed Ettouney 2008
Kamalesh Sirkar 2009 New Jersey Institute of Technology
Effat S. Emamian 2009
Raziq Yaqub 2009
Leonard Cimini 2010
Yun-Qing Shi 2010
Linda Brzustowicz 2010 Rutgers University
Yun-Qing Shi 2010
Gordon Thomas 2011
Thomas Nosker 2011
Louis J. Lanzerotti 2012
Ricky John 2012
Yingying Chen & Marco Gruteser & Richard P. Martin 2012
Rajarathnam Chandramouli & K.P. Subbalakshmi 2012
Jenny Zilberberg, Ph.D. 2013
Antonio Valdevit, Ph.D. 2013
Roberto Rojas-Cessa, Ph.D. 2013
Scott C. Kachlany, Ph.D. 2013
Treena L. Arinzeh, Ph.D. 2013
David M. Tschaen, Ph.D. 2014
Andrew W. Stamford, Ph.D. 2014
Somenath Mitra, Ph.D. 2014
T.V. Lakshman, Ph.D. 2014
Jeffrey S. Abrams, M.D. 2014

Corporate Award[edit]

Company Research area Location Year
AT&T Bell Laboratories telecommunications Berkeley Heights, New Jersey 1989
Merck and Company pharmaceutical Rahway, New Jersey 1990
David Sarnoff Research Center television Princeton, New Jersey 1991
Bell Communications Research telecommunications Livingston, New Jersey 1992
Bristol-Myers Squibb pharmaceutical Princeton, New Jersey 1993
Mobil Research and Development Corporation petrochemical Princeton, New Jersey 1993
Exxon Research and Engineering petrochemical Florham Park, New Jersey 1995
National Starch and Chemical Company food science Bridgewater, New Jersey 1996
Johnson & Johnson health care New Brunswick, New Jersey 1997
Howmedica health care Rutherford, New Jersey 1998
General Magnaplate Corporation metallurgy Linden, New Jersey 2009
Hoffman La Roche pharmaceutical Nutley, New Jersey 2009
Immunomedics biotechnology Morris Plains, New Jersey 2009
Becton Dickinson health care Franklin Lakes, New Jersey 2012
Celgene Corporation 2013
Honeywell International Inc. 2014

Trustees Award[edit]

  • Representative Rush Holt (2009)
  • Dr. Ralph Izzo (2010)
  • Dr. Jeong Kim (2011)
  • Dr. Stephen Chu (2012)
  • Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. (2013)
  • Greg Olsen, Ph.D. (2014)

Outstanding Contributions Award[edit]

Graduate Student Award[edit]

  • 2005
    • Yuanqiu Luo
    • Shuangquan Wang
  • 2006
    • Sudhakar Shet
    • Dimitrios Zarkadas
  • 2008
    • Zhiqiang Gao
    • Amey Shevtekar
    • Hong Zhang
  • 2009
  • 2010
    • Ms. Jingjing Zhang
    • Dr. Xiaoling Chen
    • Dr. Asli Ergun
  • 2011
    • Milan Begliarbekov
    • Komlan Egoh
    • Andrew Ihnen
    • Eric Stroud
  • 2012
    • Xiaoling Fu
    • Linh Le
    • Seyed Babak Mahjour
    • Ishan Wathuthanthri
    • Jie Yang
    • Yan Zhang
  • 2013
    • Xuening Chen, Ph.D.
    • Chun-Hao Lo, Ph.D.
    • Khondaker Salehin, Ph.D.
    • Wenting Zhang
  • 2014
    • Hui Chen
    • Yexin Gu
    • Tao Han

Special Award[edit]

Advancement of Invention Award[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "2011 AWARD RECIPIENTS". New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. 2011-11-07. Retrieved 2012-09-30. Dr. Pal Maliga Genetics and Molecular Biology-Method for stably Transforming Plastids of Multicellular Plants- US Patent #7,282,471.
  2. ^ "Rutgers-Newark Researcher Paula Tallal Named Inventor of the Year By NJ Inventors Hall of Fame". Rutgers University. September 25, 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-25. Tallal's achievement with Fast ForWord, as well as her body of research, will be recognized when she is named an 'Inventor of the Year' by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame.

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