Inventor Archive

Henry Marcus Quackenbush was born in Herkimer, New York on April 27, 1847.

A revolutionary in the fields of biology, physics, and medicine, Stephen Quake is best known for his work in drug discover

If you grew up in New England, chances are you’re familiar with one of the area’s most beloved, simple treats: the

Jacob Rabinow (1910-1999) was born in Kharkov, Russia and emigrated with his family during the Revolution and arrived via

For some time during the 1990s, Finnish researcher Ismo Rakkolainen’s living room was strewn with a pile of banana boxe

Ramesh Raskar is an Associate Professor at MIT

Grote Reber was born in Chicago on December 22, 1911.

Dry, tangled, hard-to-manage hair met its match in Jheri Redding, inventor of creme rinse, when he developed

Polymer chemist Elsa Reichmanis was born on December 9, 1953 in Melbourne, Australia.

In 1998, when Kelly Reinhart was just six-years old, she had an idea that would launch her into a kind of life that few ch

The entrepreneurial spirit clearly runs in the Reynolds family: Richard S.

Few Americans have made such a sweeping contribution to the process and business of inventing as Robert Rines, a trailb

A true trailblazer in the field of computer technology, Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie, born on Sept.

A great number of men and women made contributions to the world of airplane flight during the industry’s early days in the

John A.

When babies are born prematurely, they frequently require days or weeks of special care in hospitals’ neonatal intensive c