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The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) 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. Besides the Hall of Fame, it also operates a museum in Alexandria, Virginia, sponsors educational programs, and a collegiate competition. [1]
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 ...
Marian Rogers Croak is an American engineer known for her voice over IP (VoIP) related inventions. [1] Croak worked for three decades at Bell Labs and AT&T where she filed over 200 patents [2] and works at Google since 2014 where she is Vice President of Engineering, [3] [4] In 2022, she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her work with VoIP.
In 2008, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Biography. Pearson was born in Salem, Oregon. He took a bachelor's degree in mathematics and ...
George Edward Alcorn Jr. (March 22, 1940 – June 19, 2024) was an American physicist, engineer, inventor, and professor.He taught at Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia, and worked primarily for IBM and NASA.
George Harry Heilmeier (May 22, 1936 – April 21, 2014) was an American engineer, manager, and a pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays (LCDs), for which he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Heilmeier's work is an IEEE Milestone. [1] [2]
The National Inventors Hall of Fame has honored Bernard M. Oliver [7] and Claude Shannon [8] as the inventors of PCM, [9] as described in 'Communication System Employing Pulse Code Modulation,' U.S. patent 2,801,281 filed in 1946 and 1952, granted in 1956.
She was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2022. [5] [6] Lindahl was also involved with the Epilepsy Foundation, where she spent nine years on the board, taught others about the cause, and raised money and awareness. [7] [8] She resides between Charleston, South Carolina and Colchester, Vermont.