New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame

James West (born 1931) George Elwood Smith (born 1930) Eugene Irving Gordon (1930–2014) Selman Abraham Waksman (1888–1973) Willis Haviland Carrier (1876–1950) Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) Samuel Leeds Allen (1841–1918) Seth Boyden (1788–1870)

American honorary association founded in 1987

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

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Name  | Year  | Invention  | NJ affiliation

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Seth Boyden | 1989 | malleable iron | Newark, New Jersey worked
John Stevens (inventor) | 1989 | various innovations | Hoboken, New Jersey lived
Jan A. Rajchman | 1989 | read-only memory | Radio Corporation of America
Albert Einstein | 1989 | theoretical physics | Institute for Advanced Study
Alfred Vail | 1989 | telegraph | Speedwell Ironworks
Thomas A. Edison | 1989 | various innovations | Edison laboratory
Leo Sternbach | 1989 | benzodiazepines | Hoffman-La Roche
Selman Waksman | 1989 | streptomycin | Rutgers University
Roy Weber  | 1989  | Intelligent Network Services - 800 Number  | Bell Labs
Vladimir Zworykin | 1989 | television | Radio Corporation of America
Jerome H. Lemelson | 1990 |  |
Oberlin Smith | 1990 | magnetic recording | Bridgeton, New Jersey lived
Hannibal Goodwin | 1990 |  | Newark, New Jersey lived
Edward Weston (chemist) | 1990 |  | New Jersey Institute of Technology
Karl G. Jansky | 1992 | radio telescope | Bell Labs
Albert Rose (physicist) | 1992 | video camera tube | Radio Corporation of America
Paul K. Weimer | 1992 | thin-film transistor | Radio Corporation of America
John H. Sinfelt | 1992 | unleaded gasoline | ExxonMobil
James Hillier | 1992 | electron microscope | Radio Corporation of America
Solomon Andrews (inventor) | 1992 | dirigible | Perth Amboy, New Jersey lived
Walter Lincoln Hawkins | 1992 |  | Bell Labs
Charles Joseph Fletcher | 1993 | aerospace innovations | Franklin, New Jersey lived
Sidney Pestka | 1993 |  | Hoffmann-La Roche
Robert Wendell Lucky | 1993 |  | Bell Labs
Walter Brattain | 1994 | transistor | Bell Labs
William Shockley | 1994 | transistor | Bell Labs
John Bardeen | 1994 | transistor | Bell Labs
Glenn Dimmick | 1995 | Sound Motion Picture Recording | RCA
Les Paul | 1996 | guitar pickup | Mahwah, New Jersey lived
Harry F. Olson | 1996 |  | Radio Corporation of America
James L. Flanagan | 1997 |  | Rutgers University
Richard Howland Ranger | 1997 |  | Radio Corporation of America
Alfred Y. Cho | 1997 |  | Bell Labs
Allen Balcom DuMont | 1998 | television | DuMont Television Network
William O. Baker | 1998 | synthetic rubber | Bell Labs
Edwin Howard Armstrong | 1998 | FM radio, regenerative receiver, superheterodyne receiver | Alpine, New Jersey worked
Arthur Leonard Schawlow | 1999 |  | Bell Labs
Morton A. Kreitchman | 1999 | fluid control valves | Valcor Engineering Corporation
Willis Haviland Carrier | 1999 | air conditioning | Newark, New Jersey worked
Simon Lake | 2000 | submarine innovations | Pleasantville, New Jersey born
Arthur Nobile | 2000 | prednisone | Newark, New Jersey born
Martin Goetz | 2000 | software | Applied Data Research
Lee de Forest | 2001 | audion tube |
Eger V. Murphree | 2001 | fluid catalytic cracking | ExxonMobil
Donald L. Campbell | 2001 | fluid catalytic cracking | ExxonMobil
Arun Netravali | 2001 | HDTV | Bell Labs
Gerald Ash | 2001 | Dynamic Non-Hierarchical Routing | Bell Labs
Herwig Kogelnik | 2002 |  | Bell Labs
John Augustus Roebling | 2002 | suspension bridge innovations | Trenton, New Jersey worked
Samuel Leeds Allen | 2004 | Flexible Flyer | Moorestown Township, New Jersey
James M. Early | 2004 | Early effect | Bell Labs
Calvin Souther Fuller | 2005 | photovoltaics | Bell Labs
Gerard A. Alphonse | 2005 |  | IEEE
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie | 2006 | programming languages | Bell Labs
Kenneth Lane Thompson | 2006 | programming languages | Bell Labs
Harold Stephen Black | 2006 | negative feedback amplifier | Bell Labs
Henry Orenstein | 2006 | various toys | Topper Toys
James West | 2008 | electret microphone | Bell Labs
Eugene I. Gordon | 2008 | fiber optics innovations | Bell Labs
George E. Smith | 2008 | charge-coupled device | Bell Labs
Willard Boyle | 2008 | charge-coupled device | Bell Labs
Gerhard M. Sessler | 2008 | electret microphone | Bell Labs
Edward C. Taylor | 2008 | tetracycline | Princeton University
Herman Sokol | 2009 | pemetrexed | Bristol-Myers Squibb
Michael Francis Tompsett | 2010 | First Thermal and Charge Coupled Imager Patents , CCD Cameras and MOS Video ADC | Bell Labs
Lynn Schneemeyer | 2011 | material science innovations | Rutgers University
Arthur A. Gertzman | 2011 | Synthetic Bone Graft Materials, Malleable Paste for Filling Bone Defects | Gertzman Enterprises
John Siekierka | 2011 | Research and Development for Anti-Inflammatory Drug and Delivery Device | Bell Labs
William K. Hagmann | 2012 | medicinal chemistry innovations | Merck & Co
Elwin Orton | 2012 | Breakthroughs and Saving the U.S. Dogwood Industry | Rutgers University
Shu- Tung Li | 2012 | Medical Implants for the Repair and Regeneration of Soft Tissue and Bones | Collagen Matrix, Inc.
Endre Alexander Balazs | 2012 | Orthopedic Research & Groundbreaking Discoveries in Utilizing Hyaluron for Therapeutic Purposes | Columbia University Medical Center; Biomatrix, Inc. (NJ Resident)
C. Frank Wheatley Jr. | 2013 | Power semiconductor devices and integrated circuits and most notably the Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) | RCA
Leo Schenker | 2013 | Patented inventions and discoveries related to touch tone dialing and its immense impact in the public switch telephone network (PSTN) | IEEE
Sander G. Mills | 2013 | Discoveries in cancer research and most notably the substance Aprepitant, which has had worldwide impact in patient compliance/tolerance for chemotherapy and other cancer treatments | Merck & Co.
Adel A. Ahmed | 2013 | Bipolar integrated circuit design and worldwide use of the Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) integrated circuit | RCA
Philip Anderson | 2013 | Elucidating the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, which allowed for the development of electronic switching and memory devices in computers | Bell Labs
Jack Craft | 2014 | TV and radio integrated circuit designs | RCA
Rajiv V. Joshi | 2014 | Development of integrated circuits (IC), memory and predictive analytics | Columbia University (NJ Resident)
John R. Pierce | 2014 | Information theory and global and satellite communications | Bell Labs
Vladimir S. Ban | 2014 | Semi-conductor and optical network technologies | RCA
Krishan K. Sabnani | 2014 | Global communication networks | Bell Labs
Nikola Tesla | 2014 | Patented inventions transforming electrical engineering principles including alternating current (AC) and the radio | Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing
Edward Cecelski |  | VCR, metal disk player | RCA
Dennis D. Jamiolkowski | 2015 | Absorbable polymers and their applications in implantable medical and surgical devices | Ethicon Inc.
John Fenn | 2015 | Electrospray Mass Spectrometry (ESMS) technique used in biomedical research | Princeton University
Owen O'Connor | 2015 | Patented work on novel small molecules, including a pioneering drug portfolio for treatment of lymphoma | Columbia University (NJ Resident)
George Feldstein | 2015 | Audio, visual and automation technologies | Crestron Electronics
Salvatore Salamone | 2016 | Oncology research, Therapeutic Diagnostics, health care and medical device services | Rutgers University; Saladax Biomedical (NJ Resident)
Yann LeCun | 2016 | Image and speech recognition and advent of Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) | Bell Labs
Donald Landry | 2016 | Cardiovascular Biology to cancer research | Columbia University (NJ Resident)
Howard Fidel | 2016 | Biomedical device patents and medical ultrasound | NJIT

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

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Name  | Year  | Invention  | NJ affiliation

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David Cushman | 1989 | captopril | Bristol-Myers Squibb
Miguel Ondetti | 1989 | captopril | Bristol-Myers Squibb
Dave Narasimhan | 1989 |  | AlliedSignal
Raymond W. Ketchledge | 1989 |  | Bell Labs
Donald L. Klein | 1994 | Transistor | Bell Labs
Liang Tai Wu | 1995 | Asynchronous Transfer Mode | Bell Communications Research
John B. MacChesney | 1995 | optical communications | Bell Labs
James West | 1995 | electret microphone | Bell Labs
Tsong-Ho Wu & Richard Lau | 1997 | Self-Healing Ring Networks | Bell Communications Research
Bishnu Atal | 2000 | linear predictive coding | Bell Labs
Philip Warren Anderson | 2001 |  | Bell Labs
Irwin Gerszberg | 2002 | Innovations in DSL and Telco Plant | AT&T Labs
Hossein Eslambolchi | 2002 |  | Bell Labs
Robert Morris (cryptographer) | 2004 | cryptography | Bell Labs
Yeheskel Bar-Ness | 2006 |  | New Jersey Institute of Technology
Sidney Pestka | 2008 | interferon | Hoffman-La Roche
Gianluca Paladini | 2011 | volume visualization | Siemens
Comaniciu | 2011 | robust object tracking | Siemens
Pal Maliga | 2011 | chloroplast transformation, plastid transformation | Rutgers University[1]
Paula Tallal | 2012 | educational software innovations | Rutgers University[2]
Bruce McNair | 2012 |  |
Sergei Kotenko | 2012 |  |
Nirwan Ansari | 2012 |  |
Nicholi Vorsa | 2013 |  |
Richard Mammone. | 2013 |  |
Ximing Guo and Standish, K. Allen Jr. | 2013 |  |
Joseph Giovannoli | 2013 |  |
Moon Hae Sunwoo. | 2014 |  |
Richard E Riman. | 2014 |  |
Athula B. Attygalle | 2014 |  |
Raziq Yaqub. | 2014 |  |
William T. Murphy | 2014 |  |

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

## Innovator Award

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Name  | Year  | Field  | NJ affiliation

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Michael L. Recce | 2005 |  |
Lillian M. Gilbreth | 2005 | scientific management | Montclair, New Jersey
Albert Schatz | 2005 | streptomycin | Rutgers University
John von Neumann | 2006 | computer science | Institute for Advanced Study
Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. | 2006 | scientific management | Montclair, New Jersey
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. | 2006 | theoretical physics | Princeton University
Michael Wong | 2008 |  |
Ali Abdi | 2008 |  |
Mohammed Ettouney | 2008 |  |
Kamalesh Sirkar | 2009 |  | New Jersey Institute of Technology
Effat S. Emamian | 2009 |  |
Raziq Yaqub | 2009 |  |
Leonard Cimini | 2010 |  |
Yun-Qing Shi | 2010 |  |
Linda Brzustowicz | 2010 |  | Rutgers University
Yun-Qing Shi | 2010 |  |
Gordon Thomas | 2011 |  |
Thomas Nosker | 2011 |  |
Louis J. Lanzerotti | 2012 |  |
Ricky John | 2012 |  |
Yingying Chen & Marco Gruteser & Richard P. Martin | 2012 |  |
Rajarathnam Chandramouli & K.P. Subbalakshmi | 2012 |  |
Jenny Zilberberg, Ph.D. | 2013 |  |
Antonio Valdevit, Ph.D. | 2013 |  |
Roberto Rojas-Cessa, Ph.D. | 2013 |  |
Scott C. Kachlany, Ph.D. | 2013 |  |
Treena L. Arinzeh, Ph.D. | 2013 |  |
David M. Tschaen, Ph.D. | 2014 |  |
Andrew W. Stamford, Ph.D. | 2014 |  |
Somenath Mitra, Ph.D. | 2014 |  |
T.V. Lakshman, Ph.D. | 2014 |  |
Jeffrey S. Abrams, M.D. | 2014 |  |

## Corporate Award

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Company  | Research area  | Location  | Year

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AT&T Bell Laboratories | telecommunications | Berkeley Heights, New Jersey | 1989
Merck and Company | pharmaceutical | Rahway, New Jersey | 1990
David Sarnoff Research Center | television | Princeton, New Jersey | 1991
Bell Communications Research | telecommunications | Livingston, New Jersey | 1992
Bristol-Myers Squibb | pharmaceutical | Princeton, New Jersey | 1993
Mobil Research and Development Corporation | petrochemical | Princeton, New Jersey | 1993
Exxon Research and Engineering | petrochemical | Florham Park, New Jersey | 1995
National Starch and Chemical Company | food science | Bridgewater, New Jersey | 1996
Johnson & Johnson | health care | New Brunswick, New Jersey | 1997
Howmedica | health care | Rutherford, New Jersey | 1998
General Magnaplate Corporation | metallurgy | Linden, New Jersey | 2009
Hoffman La Roche | pharmaceutical | Nutley, New Jersey | 2009
Immunomedics | biotechnology | Morris Plains, New Jersey | 2009
Becton Dickinson | health care | Franklin Lakes, New Jersey | 2012
Celgene Corporation |  |  | 2013
Honeywell International Inc. |  |  | 2014

## Trustees Award

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* 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

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

## Graduate Student Award

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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)

## See also

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* National Inventors Hall of Fame
* Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey
* Edison Patent Award

## References

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1. ^ "2011 AWARD RECIPIENTS". New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. 2011-11-07. Retrieved 2012-09-30. "Dr. Pal Maliga Genetics and Molecular Biology-Method for stably Transforming Plastids of Multicellular Plants- US Patent #7,282,471."
2. ^ "Rutgers-Newark Researcher Paula Tallal Named Inventor of the Year By NJ Inventors Hall of Fame". Rutgers University. September 25, 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-25. "Tallal's achievement with Fast ForWord, as well as her body of research, will be recognized when she is named an 'Inventor of the Year' by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame."

## External links

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* Official website
* Research and Development Council of New Jersey

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