2017 National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee Bios
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HONOR. INSPIRE. CHALLENGE.® 2017 NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE Iver Anderson ® Born October 7, 1953 Lead-Free Solder Patent No. 5,527,628 Iver Anderson invented lead-free solder, melting point—the key feature of a solder. a revolutionary tin, silver, and copper Today, 70 percent of electronic items in the alternative to traditional tin and lead world contain Anderson's lead-free solder. solder. Anderson's solder has reduced Besides minimizing toxic environmental environmental hazards and is a impacts and manufacturing costs, the metallurgical advancement that has solder can withstand greater stress, higher transformed electronic packaging and temperatures and temperature changes, been adopted throughout industry for more rugged settings, and resist corrosion use in manufacturing. that can weaken soldered connections—all To perform successfully, solder must melt important to optimal functioning of smart at one temperature, flow easily, then solidify phones, laptops, tablets, and similar devices. quickly to create a strong, durable bond In addition to typical solder ingot and paste, between metal parts. Late last century, the solder alloy can also be formed into studies showed that lead in discarded sheets or wires for accurate placement. solders leached into landfills and aquifers, Anderson received his B.S. in metallurgical threatening human health. Research engineering from Michigan Technological conducted by Anderson—a professor at University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Iowa State University and metallurgist Photo credit: Ames Laboratory the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is at Ames Laboratory—and his team led to an internationally recognized authority on the innovative solder. Like the traditional lead-free solder, and his research includes tin-lead alloy, Anderson's tin-silver-copper powder metallurgy, rapid solidification, and alloy acts like a pure metal with a single joining problems. Anderson holds 39 patents. Primary Connections Education Key memberships/awards • United States Department of Energy • Michigan Technological University, B.S., • National Academy of Inventors, Ames Laboratory (1987-present) Metallurgical Engineering, 1975 Fellow, 2015 Senior Metallurgist • University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.S., • The Minerals, Metals & Materials • Iowa State University (1994-present) Metallurgical Engineering, 1977 Society Fellow, 2015 Adjunct Professor of materials • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D., • ASM International, Fellow, 1994 science and engineering Metallurgical Engineering, 1982 © 2017 National Inventors Hall of Fame, Inc. HONOR. INSPIRE. CHALLENGE.® 2017 NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE Don Arney ® Born May 27, 1947 Bambi Bucket® for Aerial Firefighting Patent No. 4,474,245 For over a half century, helicopters and requires minimal electrical power and can water buckets have been essential forest be instantly hooked up to any helicopter firefighting tools. The first aerial firefighting using a standard power plug. Bambi Buckets water bucket was a converted 45-gallon discharge a solid column of water rather drum with a bottom trap door. Subsequent than a spray, resulting in a more accurate containers of solid fiberglass, plastic, or and effective water dump, less evaporation canvas with metal frames—too rigid to fit on descent, and greater impact force. A inside the aircraft—were trucked to fire helicopter firefighting standard, Bambi sites or flown in on the hook of a helicopter Buckets are used worldwide to help contain thereby slowing the aircraft down. Equally wildfires that ground crews are then able cumbersome were complicated hookups and to control. They were also used to cool actuating mechanisms with high failure rates. Japan’s Fukushima nuclear site after Moreover, water dropped from older buckets the 2011 tsunami. dispersed into a spray thus reducing impact. Arney, who earned his B.Sc. in biology The Bambi Bucket®, invented by Don Arney from Simon Fraser University, took in 1982, changed all that. A lightweight inspiration for the Bambi Bucket from container available in a variety of sizes that the design of submersible lift bags used releases water from underneath a helicopter for underwater construction and salvage. Photo credit: Don Arney to targeted areas, the Bambi Bucket is the SEI Industries, founded by Arney in 1978, first fully collapsible aerial firefighting bucket. now offers Bambi Buckets in a range of It can be stowed within the helicopter— sizes and capacities, and commands over reducing drag—until deployment. The valve 95 percent of the international market. Primary Connections Education SEI Industries (1978-present) Simon Fraser University Founder and Owner (located in British Columbia, Canada), B.Sc., Biology, 1974 © 2017 National Inventors Hall of Fame, Inc. HONOR. INSPIRE. CHALLENGE.® 2017 NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE Carolyn Bertozzi ® Born October 10, 1966 Bioorthogonal Chemistry Patent No. 7,807,619 Carolyn Bertozzi invented the field of chemistries into living cells and molecule bioorthogonal chemistry, which allows organisms including mice and zebrafish. researchers to chemically modify molecules This technique enabled the first imaging within living systems. Bertozzi coined the study of glycans in a living organism. term in 2003 to describe reactions that do Bertozzi and her group also developed not interact or interfere with cells' biology. a bioorthogonal approach to chemically As a UC Berkeley graduate student in attach small drug molecules to specific the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bertozzi sites on an antibody to combine the developed methods for the synthesis of tumor-fighting effects of both. bioactive glycan analogs. After obtaining To commercialize this technology, her Ph.D. in 1993, she pursued postdoctoral called SMARTag™, Bertozzi and several work in immunology focusing on the role of of her colleagues formed Redwood glycan-mediated cell adhesion in immune Biosciences, a startup company, in 2008. cell trafficking. In her own lab, Bertozzi Currently named on 50 U.S. patents, merged chemistry and biology with the aim Bertozzi has received many honors and of developing technologies to interrogate awards, including the 1999 MacArthur biological systems as a molecular level. Fellowship and the 2016 National The bioorthogonal chemistries she invented Photo credit: Stanford University Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical can be used to label biomolecules, including Science. Bertozzi earned her A.B. proteins and glycans, with imaging probes, in Chemistry from Harvard and is a for example. In the first decade of the 2000s, professor at Stanford University. her group introduced bioorthogonal Primary Connections Education Key memberships/awards • Stanford University (2015-present) • Harvard University, A.B., Chemistry, 1988 • National Academy of Inventors, Professor of Chemistry • University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., Fellow, 2013 • ACS Central Science (2014-present) Chemistry, 1993 • National Academy of Medicine, Editor-in-Chief • University of California, San Francisco, Member, 2011 • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postdoctoral work, 1995 • National Academy of Sciences, (2000-present) Member, 2005 Investigator • American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member, 2003 © 2017 National Inventors Hall of Fame, Inc. HONOR. INSPIRE. CHALLENGE.® 2017 NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE Eli Harari ® Born June 10, 1945 Floating Gate EEPROM Patent Nos. 4,115,914; 5,297,148 Eli Harari invented the Floating Gate relentlessly drove down the cost of flash EEPROM (Electrically Erasable EEPROM by more than 100,000 times Programmable Read-Only Memory). through Moore’s Law scaling coupled After earning his Ph.D. from Princeton with MLC (Multi-Level Cell), a SanDisk University in 1973, Harari joined Hughes invention that allowed two or three bits of Aircraft where his research on electronic data to be stored on each flash EEPROM tunneling in ultrathin dielectric films transistor. Consumers can now enjoy led to the invention of the first practical 128 gigabytes of affordable System Flash EEPROM, which paved the way for storage in a stamp-sized package in their today’s flash memory industry. smartphone to faithfully store thousands of photos, tunes or e-books for many years Harari co-founded SunDisk (later re-named with power removed. SanDisk corporation) in 1988 to pursue his vision to develop a system-level architecture Harari retired in 2010 as chairman and (“System Flash”) that successfully overcame CEO of SanDisk. He is recipient of the fundamental physical limitations found in 2009 IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal and his flash EEPROM transistors. System Flash work on the Floating Gate EEPROM was revolutionized storage of data in portable, recognized as a 2012 IEEE Milestone. battery operated devices such as digital In 2014, he received the National Medal of Photo credit: Western Digital Corporation cameras, hand held computers and cell Technology and Innovation “for invention phones, markets that were still in their and commercialization of flash storage infancy in 1988. SanDisk’s first SSD (Solid technology to enable ubiquitous data in State Drive) incorporating the System Flash consumer electronics, mobile computing, inventions was introduced in 1991 but was and enterprise storage.” Harari is a member prohibitively expensive, initially limiting its of the National Academy of Engineering broad acceptance. But SanDisk’s engineers and is named on over 180 U.S. patents. persevered; over two decades they Primary Connections Education