PCT Notable Inventions: PCT Notable Inventors

• Randice-Lisa ALTSCHUL
• Ashok GADGIL
• Nick HOLONYAK Jr.
• Alec JEFFREYS
• Shuji NAKAMURA
• Jose VIDAL MARTINA

European Inventor of the Year

• Erik DE CLERCQ
• Federico FAGGIN
• Philip S. GREEN

Lemelson-MIT Awards for Invention or Innovation

(This prominent award program in the United States of America was established in 1994 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by one of the world’s most prolific inventors, Jerome Lemelson (1923-1997), and his wife, Dorothy.  It is funded by The Lemelson Foundation and administered by MIT's School of Engineering.  The goal of the Program is to raise the stature of inventors and to inspire invention and innovation among young people.)

• James FERGASON
• Dean KAMEN
• Raymond KURZWEIL
• Robert LANGER
• Akhil MADHANI
• Elwood NORRIS

Red Herring Top Innovators

(Red Herring, Inc is a media company which covers innovation, technology, financing and entrepreneurial activity.)

• Jennie MATHER
• Kurt PETERSEN