Inventor Archive

The standard, yellowish-colored, round plastic pill bottle has been a familiar fixture in the typical American's medicine

Born on June 7, 1909, Virginia Apgar lived to be a trailblazer: one of Columbia University's first female M.D.s (1933) and

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Over 60 years ago, Arnold O.

Over hundreds of millions of years, microorganisms have become efficient at building practical, durable structures and mat

“What I appreciate most about science and research is that, although you don’t aid people on a day-to-day basis as physici

A pioneer inventor in the field of biotechnology, Carolyn Bertozzi is internationally renowned for her research in the bio

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Forrest Bird, inventor of the first reliable, low-cost, mass-produced medical respirator, was born in Stoughton, Massachus

Ernesto Blanco is one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) leading teachers and practitioners of invention

Bessie Virginia Blount (1914-2009) led a remarkable life that began in Hickory, Virginia, where she was born on November 2

Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen combined their efforts in biotechnology to invent a method of cloning genetically engineer

One of the most famous tales in the history of American medical science is the long-distance collaboration of Elizabeth Le

Ananda Chakrabarty, PhD is a distinguished professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Illinois Colle

When Eugene Chan was a 23-year-old medical school student, he came up with an idea for mapping a genome quickly and ine

Anne Chiang is responsible for numerous accomplishments in electronic display devices and other computing technologies.