THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL INVENTORS OF ALL TIME

7 Wernher von Braun 7 from the army to that agency. As director of the NASA George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Townes studied at Furman University (B.A., B.S., 1935), Duke University (M.A. ...

7 Charles Townes 7 From 1959 to 1961 Townes served as vice president and director of research of the Institute for Defense Analy ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 as GlaxoSmithKline). There she was first the assistant and then the colleague ...

7 Frederick Sanger 7 The noted biochemist Frederick Sanger, seen here, was only the fourth person to ever win the Nobel Prize tw ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 were interested in having a student, especially one who did not need money. H ...

7 Frederick Sanger 7 On the assumption that insulin chains are held together by disulphide linkages, Sanger oxidized the chains ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 RNA Research In 1962 the Medical Research Council opened its new laboratory o ...

7 Frederick Sanger 7 biochemist Marshall Nirenberg and the Indian-born American biochemist Har Gobind Khorana, using in vitro pr ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 developed a similar procedure using dideoxynucleotide chain-terminating inhib ...

7 Tom Kilburn 7 designed and built the first stored-program computer and led a team that produced a succession of pioneering com ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 In 1956 Kilburn started his most ambitious project, MUSE, renamed Atlas when ...

7 Stephanie Kwolek 7 Carnegie Mellon University), Pittsburgh, Penn. Intending eventually to go to medical school, she went to wo ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 in 1971 with the trade name Kevlar, a fibre that finds use in high-strength t ...

7 Douglas Engelbart 7 various devices—such as the computer mouse, the multiple window display, and hypermedia (the linking of te ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 McDonnell Douglas Corporation, where Engelbart worked on information systems. ...

7 Robert Noyce 7 Calif., to produce high-speed transistors. Noyce jumped at the opportunity, renting a house in Palo Alto even b ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 design and manufacture. But Noyce saw further. Noyce saw that the solution to ...

7 Robert Noyce 7 semiconductor manufacturing capacity. Noyce became Sematech, Inc.’s, first president in 1988. Noyce held 16 pat ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time 7 Park, Calif.), which was followed the next year by one at Cedar Point (Sandus ...