Inventor of the Week Archive

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Invention		Inventor
American Sign Language Translator		Ryan Patterson
Anticancer Antibodies		Jennie Mather
Antifungal Drug Nystatin		Elizabeth Lee Hazen & Rachel Fuller Brown
Antisense Therapeutics		Paul Zamecnik
Apparatus to Remove Cataracts		Patricia Bath
Artificial Heart		Robert Jarvik
Artificial Heart Patent		Paul Winchell
Aspirin		Felix Hoffman
Assistive Devices		Anne Marie Casper
Audeo		Michael Callahan
Automated Blood Analysis		Wallace H. Coulter
Bacteriophage Platforms to Overcome Antibiotic Resistance		Timothy Lu
Balloon Catheter, Embolectomy		Thomas J. Fogarty
Band-Aid® Adhesive Bandage		Earle Dickson
Battery for Cardiac Pacemaker		Wilson Greatbach
Bifurcated Vaccination Needle		Benjamin A. Rubin
Bili Bonnet		Sharon Rogone
Biomedical Applications of Polymers		Robert Langer
Biotechnolgy & Biomaterials		Leslie A. Geddes
Automated Blood Analysis		Wallace H. Coulter
Biomedical Devices		William Murphy Jr.
Blood Bank		Charles Richard Drew
Cardiac Pacemaker, Implantable		Wilson Greatbatch
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation		Peter Safar
Cast Cooler		Krysta Morlan
Cataract Removal Apparatus		Patricia Bath
Cavity-Fighting Lollipop		Weyuan Shi
ClearRx Prescription System		Deborah Adler
Controlled Drug Delivery Systems		Robert Langer, Alejandro Zaffaroni
Cortisone, Synthesis of		Percy Lavon Julian
Covermark®		Lydia O'Leary
CT Scanner		Robert Ledley
Device for low-cost eyeglasses		Saul Griffith
Dialysis Apparatus, Kidney		Willem Kolff
Diabetes Test, At-home		Helen Murray Free
Dialysis Apparatus, Portable		Dean Kamen
Dimeric FGF2		David Berry
Dissolvable Pill		William Upjohn
DNA Fingerprinting		Alec Jeffreys
Drugs for Treatment of Cancer & Leukemia		Gertrude B. Elion
Electrocardiogram		Willem Einthoven
Electron Microscope		James Hillier
Embolectomy Balloon Catheter		Thomas J. Fogarty
Flex-Foot		Van Phillips
Gene Sequencer		Leroy Hood
Gene Sequencing		Eugene Chan
General Anesthetic Pentothal		Donalee Tabern & Ernest Volwiler
Genetic Engineering		Herbert Boyer & Stanley Cohen
Genetics & Therapeutics		Marie Claire King
Gene-Radar		Anita Goel
Human Transportation Technology		Yoshiyuki Sankai and Dean Kamen
Implantable Cardiac Pacemaker		Wilson Greatbach
Interferons		Sidney Pestka
Intravascular Stent		Julio C. Palmaz
Intravenous catheter shield		Betty M. Rozier and Lisa M. Vallino
Lung Cancer Vaccine		Ariel Hollinshead
Magnetic Resonance Scanning Machine		Raymond V. Damadian
Medical Imaging Systems		Albert Macovski
Medical Respirator		Forrest Bird
Microelectrode		Ida Henrietta Hyde
Multi-channel Cochlear Implant		Graeme Clark
Multi-terrain Wheelchair		Colin Twitchell
Neuroelectric Systems		Daniel DiLorenzo
Newborn Scoring System		Virginia Apgar
Nystatin (Antifungal Drug)		Elizabeth Lee Hazen & Rachel Fuller Brown
Optical Diagnostic Equipment		Tuan Vo-Dinh
Pacemaker, Implantable Cardiac		Wilson Greatbatch
Pasteurization/Vaccines		Louis Pasteur
Penicillin		Alexander Fleming
Plastination		Gunther von Hagens
Polio Vaccine		Jonas Salk
Polymerase Chain Reaction		Karl Mullis
Portable Medical Technology		Dean Kamen
Programmable Medical Devices		Robert Fischell
Prosthetic Arm		Ivan Yaeger
Prozac		Klaus K. Schmiegel
Radioimmunoassay (RIA)		Rosalyn Yalow
Rapid Exchange balloon angioplasty/stenting system		Paul Yock
Respirator		Forrest Bird
RPI-069		Eva Vertes
Safety Hood		Garrett A. Morgan
Self-Feeding Device for Amputees		Bessie Blount
Stair-Climbing Wheelchair		Ernesto Blanco, Rufus J. Weaver
Stem Cell Research		Curt Civin
Stethoscope		Rene Laennec
String Ribbson Process		Emanuel Sachs
Stroke Treatment		Jewell Osterholm
Synthesis of Cortisone		Percy Lavon Julian
Synthetic B-Chain Magainin Derivative		Emilie Porter
Teleoperated surgical Equipment		Akhil Madhani
Tetracycline		Lloyd Conover
Tissue Engineering Processes		Gail K. Naughton
Tuberculosis Test		Florence Seibert
Vaccine for Lung Cancer		Ariel Hollinshead
Water Bike		Krysta Morlan
Wheelchair (Multi-terrain)		Colin Twitchell
Wheelchair (Stair-climbing)		Ernesto Blanco
X-Ray Tube		William D. Coolidge

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