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Helen Murray Free (February 20, 1923 – May 1, 2021) was an American chemist and educator. She is most known for revolutionizing many in vitro self-testing systems for diabetes and other diseases while working at Miles Laboratories .
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution is an overview of the history of computer science and the Digital Revolution. It was written by Walter Isaacson , and published in 2014 by Simon & Schuster .
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) is a US non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging inventors in academia, following the model of the National Academies of the United States. [1] It was founded at the University of South Florida in 2010. Starting in 2012, the NAI has inducted 757 Fellows into the organization. [2]
The International company of Inventors' (IFIA) is a non-profit, nongovernmental organization founded in London under the supervision of the United Nations, on July 11, 1968, by inventors of Denmark, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. [5]
The bridge across the Potomac to Maryland is named after Rumsey, as is the James Rumsey Technical Institute [9] in Hedgesville, West Virginia, and Rumsey Road in Columbia, Maryland. [10] Rumsey, Kentucky, on the banks of the Green River is named in Rumsey's honor. Rumsey was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1789. [11]
The MIT150 is a list published by the Boston Globe, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011, listing 150 of the most significant innovators, inventions or ideas from MIT, its alumni, faculty, and related people and organizations in the 150 year history of the institute. The top 30 innovators ...
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology. As of 2020, 603 inventors have been inducted, mostly constituting historic persons from the past three centuries, but including about 100 living ...
This institution became Stevens Institute of Technology, which opened its doors in 1870. [ citation needed ] The university has since expanded to an entire hilltop campus overlooking Manhattan , and the original building funded by Stevens's bequest, which was renamed Edwin A. Stevens Hall , continues to house much of the School of Engineering ...