Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2007 inducteesFebruary 10, 2007

The National Inventors Hall of Fame has announced this year’s inductees. In all, 16 inventors were inducted, 7 living and 9 posthumously. Those honored include:

• Paul Baran and Donald Davies for digital packet switching
• Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield for Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
• Emmett Chappelle for Bioluminescence techniques
• Leroy Hood for the automated DNA sequencer
• Robert Metcalfe for Ethernet
• John Franz for Roundup? herbicide
• Allen Breed for the automotive airbag
• David Cushman and Miguel Ondetti for Captopril
• William Goddard and John Lynott for magnetic disk storage
• Peter Goldmark for the long playing (LP) record
• Maurice Hilleman for several vaccines, including chicken pox, Haemophilus influenzae, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, measles, meningitis, mumps, and pneumonia
• Godfrey Hounsfield for the CAT or CT scanner
• Arthur Nobile for Prednisone
• Otto Wichterle for soft contact lenses

This year’s class will be inducted on May 4-5 at the annual ceremony in Akron, Ohio. For more information about the inductees, click here.