NATIONAL INVENTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD (仅供参考)

NATIONAL INVENTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD

2010 George P. Lahm, Ph.D.
Thomas P. Selby, Ph.D.
Thomas M. Stevenson, Ph.D.
for their invention of DuPont™ Rynaxypyr® an advanced insect control product.

2009 James Baughman,
David Cook, Ph.D.,
Keith Kowalsky and Daniel Marantz
—Flame Spray Industries—for their development of Plasma Transfered Wire Arc (PTWA) Thermal Spray Apparatus and Method.

2008 Ihor Lys, Ph.D.,
—ColorKinetics—for his development of Powercore® technology (LED lighting).

2007 Raymond V. Damadian
—FONAR Corporation— for his development of Upright™ MRI technology.

2006 Phillip Frank Souter and Colin Ure
—Procter &Gamble Co.—for their development of PuR®Purifier of Water Sachets. Industrial Design Award:Christopher A. Arnholt, Paul M. Pierce, and Tim J.Sutherland, for the Motorola RAZR. Youth Award:Cassidy Goldstein, for the Crayon Holder device.

2005 Stuart B. Rosenblum, Sundeep Dugar, Duane A.Burnett, John W. Clader, and Brian A. McKittrick—Schering-Plough Corporation—for their development of Zetia® (ezetimibe) cholesterol medication.

2004 James R. Weber and Scott A. Leman—Caterpillar Inc.—for their development of an air and fuel supply system designed to significantly reduce diesel emissions.

2003 Warren M. Zapol and Claes Frostell—Massachusetts General Hospital—for their developmentof an innovative treatment for pulmonary vasoconstriction and asthma.

2002 Nils U. Bang, Robert J. Beckmann, Brian W. Grinnell, Daniel L. Hartman, S. Richard Jaskunas, Mei-Hui T. Lai, Sheila P. Little, George L. Long, Robert F. Santerre and Sau-Chi Betty Yan —Eli Lilly and Company—for the development of Xigris™, a biotech medicine treating adults with life-threatening, severe sepsis.

2001 M. Patricia Beckmann, Raymond G. Goodwin and Craig A. Smith—Immunex Corp.—a genetically engineered drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis
and other diseases.

2000 Gail K. Naughton—Advanced Tissue Sciences—process to produce human organs for transplantion.

1999 Curt I. Civin—Johns Hopkins University—invented a monoclonal antibody that binds to a substance in human stem cells for bone marrow transplant.

1998 Patricia D. Murphy, Antonette C. Allen, Christopher P. Alvarez, Brenda S. Critz. Sheri J. Olson, Denise Thurber, and Bin Zeng—Oncormed, Inc.—gene sequence that enables testing for susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancer.

1997 Dale J. Kempf, Daniel W. Norbeck, Hing L. Sham, and Chen Zhao—Abbott Laboratories—NORVIR®; Joseph P. Vaca, Bruce D. Dorsay, James P. Guare, M. Katherine Holloway, and Randall W. Hungate
—Merck & Co., Inc.—CRIXIVAN®. Both inventions are HIV protease inhibitors for treatment of AIDS.

1996 William C. Atkinson, Robert P. Cloutier, Michael L. Wash, and Arthur A. Whitfield—Eastman Kodak Co.—for magnetic tracks on film for purposes of storing photographic data.

1995 Harold E. Aller and Adam C. Hsu—Rohm & Haas Company—for Confirm, an agricultural insecticide.

1994 Pak-Wing S. Chum, George W. Knight, John R. Wilson, Shih-Yaw Lai, and James C. Stevens—Dow Chemical Company—for a new family of plastics.

1993 Gary H. Rasmusson and Glenn F. Reynolds —Merck and Co., Inc.—for Proscar, for treatment of benign prostate enlargement. Distinguished Inventor Awards: Stephen P.A. Fodor, Michael C. Pirrung, J. Leighton Read, and Lubert Stryer for a “biological
chip” used in drug discovery and medical diagnostics.
John S. Attinello, Jean Bergh, Fernand A.J. Fourgon, and William E. Glover for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company’s Aquatred tire.

1992 John Cocke, Francis Carrubba, Norman Kreitzer, and George Radin—IBM Corp. —for Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC). Distinguished Inventor Awards: Lawrence Souza for Neupogen, biotechnology drug and Leslie P. Williams for
Adjustable Foaming Chamber Stem for Foam-Applying Nozzle.

1991 Charles L. Dumoulin, Howard R. Hart Jr., Steven P. Souza, and Harvey E. Cline—General Electric, Co.—for Phase-Contrast Magnetic Resonance
Angiography. Distinguished Inventor Awards: Rajen Puri and Michael H. Stein for Method for Nitrogen-Enhanced Coalbed Methane Production and Jack L. Jewell and Axel Scherer for a Surface Emitting Semiconductor Laser.

1990 Howard L. Benford, Gerald L. Holbrook, and Maurice B. Leising—Chrysler Corp.—for the Electronically Controlled Automatic Transmission.
Distinguished Inventor Awards: Marinus Los for imidazolinone
herbicides; David H. Gelfand and Susanne Stoffel for Taq DNAPolymerase Enzyme;
and Barnett Rosenberg for Carboplatin, a second generation platinum-based anti-cancer agent.

1989 David Goeddel, William J. Kohr, Diane Pennica, and Gordon Vehar—Genentech, Inc.—for a DNA sequence encoding human t-PA, a clot-dissolving drug for treatment of heart attack patients.
Distinguished Inventor Awards: James L. Fergason for liquid crystal eye protection; Charles A. Chidsey, III and Guinter Kahn for baldness treatment; Rober P. Freese, Richard N. Gardner, Leslie H. Johnson, and Thomas A. Rinehart for rewritable optical disks.
1988 Alfred W. Alberts, George Albers- Schonberg,Richard L. Monaghan, and Carl H. Hoffman—Merck & Co., Inc.—for lovastatin, a cholesterollowering drug. Distinguished Inventor Awards: Elbert L. (Burt) Rutan for a tandem-winged aircraft;
Janine Jagger for retractable safety needles; Charles L. Dumoulin and Cristopher J. Hardy for magnetic resonance spectroscopy; and James J. Duffy for a variable- assist power steering system.

1987 Amar G. Bose and William R. Short—Bose Corp.—for a loud speaker system, employing a folded acoustic waveguide. Distinguished Inventor Awards: Saul and Malon Kit for pseudorabies vaccine, and Abe Widra for synthetic skin.

1986 David F. Mark, Leo S. Lin and Shi-Da Yu Lu—Cetus Corp.—for “Cetus interleukin-2”, a genetically engineered drug. Distinguished Inventor
Awards: Raymond C. Kurzweil for a music synthesizer, and Jerrold S. Petrofsky for work in programmed electrical stimulation of paralyzed muscles.

1985 Jewell L. Osterholm—Thomas Jefferson University—for a stroke treatment system.
Distinguished Inventor Awards: Ronald L. Kirk for the Spatial Light Modulator, and Paul A. Porasik for a process of making detergents. 1984 Robert E. Fischell—Johns Hopkins University—for the Programmable Implantable Medication System. Distinguished Inventor Awards: Gordon Cann for an electrically augmented rocket, George Levitt for a
new class of highly active herbicides, and George D. Myers for a heavy oil cracking process.

1983 Robert Jarvik—University of Utah—for the Jarvik Seven Artificial Heart.
1982 Donald Asmus—independent inventor—for a device enabling paralyzed people to move about in an upright position.

1981 Paul Macready—independent inventor—for “Gossamer Condor,” a human-powered flying device.

1980 William A. Thornton Jr. for work with lamps.

1979 Barbara S. Askins for an autoradiographic image enhancement process.

1978 Gordon Gould for optically-pumped lasers.

1977 Ollidene Weaver, Edward S. Bagley, George F. Fanta, and William Doane for the “Super Slurper”water absorbent.

1976 Emmet N. Leith and Juris Upatneiks for contributions to holography.

1975 Mario Puretic for a V-shaped pulley used with commercial fishing nets.

1974 Byron B. Brenden for acoustical holography.