MIT150

The MIT150 is a list published by the Boston Globe, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011, listing 150 of the most significant innovators, inventions or ideas from MIT, its alumni, faculty, and related people and organizations in the 150 year history of the institute.

The top 30 innovators and inventions on the list are:


 * 1) Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
 * 2) Eric Lander, team leader for sequencing one-third of the Human Genome
 * 3) William Shockley, inventor of the solid-state transistor
 * 4) Ray Tomlinson, inventor of the "@" symbol use in email addresses
 * 5) Phillip A. Sharp, founder of Biogen Idec
 * 6) Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson, founders of Digital Equipment Corp.
 * 7) Helen Greiner and Colin Angle, founders of iRobot Corp.
 * 8) Ellen Swallow Richards, nutrition expert, and the first woman admitted to MIT
 * 9) Amar Bose, founder of Bose Corporation
 * 10) Ivan Getting, founder of Aerospace Corp., co-inventor of GPS
 * 11) Salvador Luria, father of modern biology
 * 12) Joseph Jacobson, co-founder of E Ink
 * 13) Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston, inventors of VisiCalc
 * 14) Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive
 * 15) Daniel Lewin, F. Thomson Leighton, co-founders of Akamai
 * 16) Vannevar Bush, science advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, founder of Raytheon, father of the National Science Foundation
 * 17) Pietro Belluschi, dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning
 * 18) Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Leonard Adleman, inventors of RSA cryptography
 * 19) Charles Draper, inventor of the first inertial guidance system
 * 20) Herbert Kalmus, Daniel Comstock, cofounders of Technicolor
 * 21) John Dorrance, inventor of Campbell Soup
 * 22) David Baltimore, Nobel laureate
 * 23) Robert Weinberg, cofounder of the Whitehead Institute
 * 24) William Thompson Sedgwick, founder of the Harvard School of Public Health
 * 25) Alfred P. Sloan, CEO of General Motors
 * 26) William Hewlett, cofounder of Hewlett Packard
 * 27) Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics and creator of BigDog
 * 28) Hugh Herr, founder of iWalk and head of the Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab
 * 29) Hoyt C. Hottel, oil industry pioneer
 * 30) Robert Swanson, cofounder of Genentech