The New Jersey Inventor's Hall of Fame was established in 1987 to honor individuals and corporations in New Jersey for their inventions. Award recipients are recognized at the annual Award Banquet Dinner. The New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame operated from 1987 to 2002 at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, from 2003 to 2007 with support from the Research and Development Council of New Jersey. Starting in 2008 it was under the aegis of Stevens Institute of Technology Office of Academic Entrepreneurship. In 2010, Greenberg Traurig became a co-sponsor of the organization.
| Name | Year | Invention | NJ affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | malleable iron | Newark, New Jersey worked | |
| 1989 | various innovations | Hoboken, New Jersey lived | |
| 1989 | read-only memory | Radio Corporation of America | |
| 1989 | Institute for Advanced Study | ||
| 1989 | telegraph | Speedwell Ironworks | |
| 1989 | various innovations | Edison laboratory | |
| 1989 | benzodiazepines | Hoffman-La Roche | |
| 1989 | Rutgers University | ||
| Roy Weber | 1989 | Intelligent Network Services - 800 Number | Bell Labs |
| 1989 | television | Radio Corporation of America | |
| 1990 | |||
| 1990 | magnetic recording | Bridgeton, New Jersey lived | |
| 1990 | Newark, New Jersey lived | ||
| 1990 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | ||
| 1992 | radio telescope | Bell Labs | |
| 1992 | video camera tube | Radio Corporation of America | |
| 1992 | thin-film transistor | Radio Corporation of America | |
| 1992 | unleaded gasoline | ExxonMobil | |
| 1992 | electron microscope | Radio Corporation of America | |
| 1992 | dirigible | Perth Amboy, New Jersey lived | |
| 1992 | Bell Labs | ||
| 1993 | aerospace innovations | Franklin, New Jersey lived | |
| 1993 | Hoffmann-La Roche | ||
| 1993 | Bell Labs | ||
| 1994 | transistor | Bell Labs | |
| 1994 | transistor | Bell Labs | |
| 1994 | transistor | Bell Labs | |
| 1995 | Sound Motion Picture Recording | RCA | |
| 1996 | guitar pickup | Mahwah, New Jersey lived | |
| 1996 | Radio Corporation of America | ||
| 1997 | Rutgers University | ||
| 1997 | Radio Corporation of America | ||
| 1997 | Bell Labs | ||
| 1998 | television | DuMont Television Network | |
| 1998 | synthetic rubber | Bell Labs | |
| 1998 | FM radio, regenerative receiver, superheterodyne receiver | Alpine, New Jersey worked | |
| 1999 | Bell Labs | ||
| 1999 | fluid control valves | ||
| 1999 | air conditioning | Newark, New Jersey worked | |
| 2000 | submarine innovations | Pleasantville, New Jersey born | |
| 2000 | prednisone | Newark, New Jersey born | |
| 2000 | software | Applied Data Research | |
| 2001 | audion tube | ||
| 2001 | fluid catalytic cracking | ExxonMobil | |
| 2001 | fluid catalytic cracking | ExxonMobil | |
| 2001 | HDTV | Bell Labs | |
| 2001 | Dynamic Non-Hierarchical Routing | Bell Labs | |
| 2002 | Bell Labs | ||
| 2002 | suspension bridge innovations | Trenton, New Jersey worked | |
| 2004 | Flexible Flyer | Moorestown Township, New Jersey | |
| 2004 | Early effect | Bell Labs | |
| 2005 | photovoltaics | Bell Labs | |
| 2005 | IEEE | ||
| 2006 | programming languages | Bell Labs | |
| 2006 | programming languages | Bell Labs | |
| 2006 | Bell Labs | ||
| 2006 | various toys | Topper Toys | |
| 2008 | electret microphone | Bell Labs | |
| 2008 | fiber optics innovations | Bell Labs | |
| 2008 | charge-coupled device | Bell Labs | |
| 2008 | charge-coupled device | Bell Labs | |
| 2008 | electret microphone | Bell Labs | |
| 2008 | tetracycline | Princeton University | |
| 2009 | pemetrexed | Bristol-Myers Squibb | |
| 2010 | Bell Labs | ||
| 2011 | material science innovations | Rutgers University | |
| 2011 | Synthetic Bone Graft Materials, Malleable Paste for Filling Bone Defects | Gertzman Enterprises | |
| 2011 | Research and Development for Anti-Inflammatory Drug and Delivery Device | Bell Labs | |
| 2012 | medicinal chemistry innovations | Merck & Co | |
| 2012 | Breakthroughs and Saving the U.S. Dogwood Industry | Rutgers University | |
| 2012 | Medical Implants for the Repair and Regeneration of Soft Tissue and Bones | Collagen Matrix, Inc. | |
| 2012 | Orthopedic Research & Groundbreaking Discoveries in Utilizing Hyaluron for Therapeutic Purposes | Columbia University Medical Center
| |
| 2013 | Power semiconductor devices and integrated circuits and most notably the Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) | RCA | |
| 2013 | Patented inventions and discoveries related to touch tone dialing and its immense impact in the public switch telephone network (PSTN) | IEEE | |
| 2013 | Discoveries in cancer research and most notably the substance Aprepitant, which has had worldwide impact in patient compliance/tolerance for chemotherapy and other cancer treatments | Merck & Co. | |
| 2013 | Bipolar integrated circuit design and worldwide use of the Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) integrated circuit | RCA | |
| 2013 | Elucidating the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, which allowed for the development of electronic switching and memory devices in computers | Bell Labs | |
| 2014 | TV and radio integrated circuit designs | RCA | |
| 2014 | Development of integrated circuits (IC), memory and predictive analytics | Columbia University (NJ Resident) | |
| 2014 | Information theory and global and satellite communications | Bell Labs | |
| 2014 | Semi-conductor and optical network technologies | RCA | |
| 2014 | Global communication networks | Bell Labs | |
| 2014 | Patented inventions transforming electrical engineering principles including alternating current (AC) and the radio | Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing | |
| VCR, metal disk player | RCA | ||
| 2015 | Absorbable polymers and their applications in implantable medical and surgical devices | Ethicon Inc. | |
| 2015 | Electrospray Mass Spectrometry (ESMS) technique used in biomedical research | Princeton University | |
| 2015 | Patented work on novel small molecules, including a pioneering drug portfolio for treatment of lymphoma | Columbia University (NJ Resident) | |
| 2015 | Audio, visual and automation technologies | Crestron Electronics | |
| 2016 | Oncology research, Therapeutic Diagnostics, health care and medical device services | Rutgers University
| |
| 2016 | Image and speech recognition and advent of Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) | Bell Labs | |
| 2016 | Cardiovascular Biology to cancer research | Columbia University (NJ Resident) | |
| 2016 | Biomedical device patents and medical ultrasound | NJIT | |
Other Hall of Fame Inductees
| Name | Year | Invention | NJ affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Bristol-Myers Squibb | ||
| 1989 | Bristol-Myers Squibb | ||
| 1989 | AlliedSignal | ||
| 1989 | Bell Labs | ||
| 1994 | Bell Labs | ||
| 1995 | Bell Communications Research | ||
| 1995 | Bell Labs | ||
| 1995 | Bell Labs | ||
| 1997 | Bell Communications Research | ||
| 2000 | linear predictive coding | Bell Labs | |
| 2001 | Bell Labs | ||
| 2002 | AT&T Labs | ||
| 2002 | Bell Labs | ||
| 2004 | cryptography | Bell Labs | |
| 2006 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | ||
| 2008 | interferon | Hoffman-La Roche | |
| 2011 | volume visualization | Siemens | |
| 2011 | robust object tracking | Siemens | |
| 2011 | Rutgers University[1] | ||
| 2012 | educational software innovations | Rutgers University[2] | |
| 2012 | |||
| 2012 | |||
| 2012 | |||
| 2013 | |||
| 2013 | |||
| and Standish, K. Allen Jr. | 2013 | ||
| 2013 | |||
| 2014 | |||
| 2014 | |||
| 2014 | |||
| 2014 | |||
| 2014 | |||
Other Inventors of the Year
| Name | Year | Field | NJ affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | |||
| 2005 | scientific management | Montclair, New Jersey | |
| 2005 | streptomycin | Rutgers University | |
| 2006 | computer science | Institute for Advanced Study | |
| 2006 | scientific management | Montclair, New Jersey | |
| 2006 | theoretical physics | Princeton University | |
| 2008 | |||
| 2008 | |||
| 2008 | |||
| 2009 | New Jersey Institute of Technology | ||
| 2009 | |||
| 2009 | |||
| 2010 | |||
| 2010 | |||
| 2010 | Rutgers University | ||
| 2010 | |||
| 2011 | |||
| 2011 | |||
| 2012 | |||
| 2012 | |||
| & Marco Gruteser & Richard P. Martin | 2012 | ||
| 2012 | |||
| 2013 | |||
| 2013 | |||
| 2013 | |||
| 2013 | |||
| , Ph.D. | 2013 | ||
| 2014 | |||
| 2014 | |||
| 2014 | |||
| 2014 | |||
| 2014 | |||
| Company | Research area | Location | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| telecommunications | 1989 | ||
| 1990 | |||
| 1991 | |||
| telecommunications | 1992 | ||
| 1993 | |||
| petrochemical | 1993 | ||
| petrochemical | 1995 | ||
| food science | 1996 | ||
| health care | 1997 | ||
| health care | 1998 | ||
| metallurgy | 2009 | ||
| pharmaceutical | 2009 | ||
| biotechnology | 2009 | ||
| health care | 2012 | ||
| 2013 | |||
| 2014 | |||