New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame





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.

Hall of Fame Inductees
Other Hall of Fame Inductees


 * 1989
 * Calvin MacCracken
 * Roy Weber
 * 1990
 * Hubert Lechevalier
 * Arthur Patchett
 * William Pfefferle
 * Harold Seidel
 * Marvin Weinstein
 * 1991
 * Benjamin Abeles, George Cody
 * Carlyle Caldwell
 * Gordon W. Calundann
 * Andrew G. F. Dingwall
 * C. Reed Funk
 * Anthony D. Kurtz
 * Jerome Murray
 * 1992
 * Melvin L. Druin
 * Frederick J. Karol
 * Harold Law
 * William L. Maxson
 * 1993
 * Marc A. Chavannes, Alfred W. Fielding
 * Erwin Klingsberg
 * Keith D. Millis
 * 1994
 * Jack Avins
 * William O. Geyer
 * George R. Hansen
 * Phillip H. Smith
 * Richard Williams (inventor)
 * 1995
 * David Aronson (inventor)
 * Alvin M. Cohan
 * George deStevens
 * Joseph J. Mascuch
 * Glenn Leslie Dimmick
 * Kenneth S. Johnson
 * 1996
 * Richard Dehmel (inventor)
 * Arnold J. Morway
 * Charles Frederick Wallace
 * N. Joseph Woodland
 * 1997
 * Ezra Gould
 * Milton Morse
 * Harry L. Yale
 * 1998
 * Joseph Abys
 * Nikil S. Jayant
 * Henry M. Rowan
 * 1999
 * Cyrus W. Bemmels
 * Haig Kafafian
 * Morton A. Kreitchman
 * 2000
 * Albert Ballman, Robert Laudise, Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies of Murray Hill, NJ
 * Alan White (inventor)
 * 2001
 * Homer Z. Martin
 * Charles W. Tyson
 * Abdul Gaffar
 * Glen A. Reitmeier
 * 2002
 * Isaac S. Blonder
 * Ben H. Tongue
 * Anthony E. Winston
 * 2004
 * Dr. Corrado Dragone
 * Mr. Walter J. Krupick
 * Colonel Willian Blair
 * Dr. Meredith C. Gourdine
 * 2005
 * William Trager
 * Howard J. Ellison
 * Clarence D. Chang, Anthony J. Silvestri, William H. Lang
 * 2006
 * Daryl M. Chapin, Gerald L. Pearson
 * 2009
 * Yvonne Claeys Brill
 * 2010
 * Dr. Michael Tompsett
 * Dr. Andrew Chraplyvy
 * Dr. Robert Tkach
 * Dr. Kenneth Walker (inventor)

Inventors of the Year
Other Inventors of the Year 


 * 1989
 * Frank Gutleber
 * Sheldon Karesh, Dusan Prevorsek
 * Leo Harwood
 * Amos Joel, Jr.
 * Glenn Johnson, Jr.
 * Walter Kosonocky
 * Mandayam Narasimhan
 * Deger Tunc
 * 1990
 * Michael Catapano, Renato Noe
 * Daniel Kramer (inventor)
 * Juris Mednis
 * Franklin Reick
 * Bart Zoltan
 * 1991
 * William Charney
 * Charles Covino
 * Jack R. Hartford
 * Frederick M. Kahan
 * Gregory H. Olsten
 * Joseph F. Rizzo
 * David Savage, Guido Sartori & Winston S. Ho
 * Stanley S. Schodowski
 * Joseph V. Milo
 * 1992
 * Murrae Bowden, Larry F. Thompson
 * John D. Geberth, Jr.
 * Gideon Goldstein
 * August F. Manz
 * Victor Palinczar
 * Ross C. Terrell
 * 1993
 * Michael J. Flowers
 * Louis L. Grube
 * Sue Wilson
 * 1994
 * Eric J. Addeo
 * Robert E. Kerwin, Donald L. Klein, John C. Sarace
 * Kuo-Yann Lai
 * June D. Passaretti
 * Milan R. Uskokovic
 * Gilbert Zweig
 * 1995
 * Richard Frenkiel
 * Robert D. Howson
 * Carl H. X
 * Liang Tai Wu
 * 1996
 * Leslie R. Avery
 * Gilbert Buchalter
 * Lanny S. Smoot
 * Dominik M. Wiktor
 * 1997
 * Arthur L. Babson
 * Walter Jinotti
 * Steven M. Kuznicki
 * Lee-Fang Wei
 * Tsong-Ho Wu, Richard C.L. Lau
 * 1998
 * Gary Ver Strate Mark J. Struglinski of Exxon Chemical Company in Linden, John E. Johnston of Warren Exxon Research and Engineering Co. in Annandale, Roger K. West
 * Joseph Dettling of Howell - Zhicheng Hu, Y.K. Lui, C.Z. Wan, Engelhard Industries
 * Michael Pappas (inventor)
 * Melvin E. Kamen
 * John Mickowski
 * 1999
 * Andrew Chraplyvy, Matawan Robert Tkach, Kenneth Walker (inventor)
 * William Hickerson
 * 2000
 * Gerard P. Canevari, Robert J. Fiocco, Richard R. Lessard
 * Alfonso DiMino
 * Barin Haskell
 * 2001
 * J. Thomas Jennings
 * James D. Johnston (inventor)
 * Jack H. Winters
 * 2002
 * Valerie A. Bell
 * Irwin Gerszberg
 * Antoni S. Gozdz, Jean-Marie Tarascon, Paul C. Warren
 * 2004
 * Dr. Igor Palley
 * 2005
 * David M. Goldenberg
 * Jack R. Harford
 * Harry T. Roman
 * 2006
 * Claude E. Gagna
 * 2008
 * Amit Limaye
 * 2009
 * Michael Seul
 * Christos Christodoulatos, George P. Korfiatis, Xiaoguang Meng, Mazakhir Dadachov
 * 2010
 * Dr. Nicolas Girard (inventor)
 * Dr. Bijan Harichian
 * Richard Caizza

Trustees Award

 * Representative Rush Holt (2009)
 * Dr. Ralph Izzo (2010)
 * Dr. Jeong Kim (2011)
 * Dr. Stephen Chu (2012)
 * Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. (2013)
 * Greg Olsen, Ph.D. (2014)

Outstanding Contributions Award

 * Dr. Gertrude M. Clarke (2011)
 * Inventor Harry Roman (2012)
 * (2013)
 * (2014)

Graduate Student Award

 * 2005
 * Yuanqiu Luo
 * Shuangquan Wang
 * 2006
 * Sudhakar Shet
 * Dimitrios Zarkadas
 * 2008
 * Zhiqiang Gao
 * Amey Shevtekar
 * Hong Zhang
 * 2009
 * Chuan-Bi Lin
 * Ziqian Cecilia Dong
 * Dipshikha Biswas
 * 2010
 * Ms. Jingjing Zhang
 * Dr. Xiaoling Chen
 * Dr. Asli Ergun
 * 2011
 * Milan Begliarbekov
 * Komlan Egoh
 * Andrew Ihnen
 * Eric Stroud
 * 2012
 * Xiaoling Fu
 * Linh Le
 * Seyed Babak Mahjour
 * Ishan Wathuthanthri
 * Jie Yang
 * Yan Zhang
 * 2013
 * Xuening Chen, Ph.D.
 * Chun-Hao Lo, Ph.D.
 * Khondaker Salehin, Ph.D.
 * Wenting Zhang
 * 2014
 * Hui Chen
 * Yexin Gu
 * Tao Han

Special Award

 * 1993
 * Bonnie L. James, Cherica Inc., Tuckerton
 * Italo Marchiony (1868-1954), Hoboken
 * 1994
 * Donald J. Sauer
 * James T. Reynolds
 * John J. Frins
 * James Edward Johnstone
 * 1995
 * Allan H. Willinger
 * Michael D. Mintz
 * William J. von Liebig
 * 1996
 * Barbara Derkoski
 * Otto Niederer
 * 1997
 * Martin C. Pettesch
 * 1998
 * William Lowell of Maplewood, New Jersey for the golf tee
 * Quentin T. Kelly, Pennington and WorldWater Corp., Pennington
 * Melvin Levinson
 * 1999
 * William Greeley
 * 2000
 * Stephan Schaffan, Jr.
 * 2001
 * David Brown (inventor)
 * Wellington Titus
 * Fred Topinka
 * 2002
 * Dave Hammond
 * 2004
 * Dr. Phillip J. Petillo
 * Dr. Majid Abou-Gharbia
 * 2009
 * Michael J. Flowers
 * 2010
 * Dr. Timothy Chang (inventor)
 * 2012
 * Ken Zorovich & Yos Kumthampinij & John C. Earle
 * 2013
 * Barry H. Katz, M.D.
 * 2014
 * Ronnie Z. Bochner, M.D.

Advancement of Invention Award

 * New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey (1997)
 * New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology (1999)
 * Gil Zweig (2009)
 * Dr. Dr. Rainer Martini (2011)
 * Dr. Dr. Hsuan Lillian Labowsky (2012)
 * Dr. Yu-Dong Yao, Ph.D. (2013)
 * Dr. Beatrice Hicks, D.Sc. (Hon) (2013)
 * Dr. Leslie Brunell, P.E., Ph.D (2014)
 * Dr. Beth McGrath, Mercedes McKay & Jason Sayres (2014)
 * Dr. Joshua Weston (2014)