Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann, inventor of LSD, died yesterday at the age of 102, just 10 days after the 55th anniversary of his notorious bicycle trip while tripping on "acid". Hofmann, who suffered a ...
... (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., will receive the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Inc. on May 3 at the Hall's headquarters in Akron, Ohio. The annual Lifetime ...
... professor in U.Va.'s Department of Plastic Surgery, as the 2008 Edlich-Henderson Inventor of the Year. Rodeheaver was chosen for the revolutionary wound-healing technology he has developed over more ...
An engineering team at Rowan University is working with a New Jersey inventor to advance a new solar thermal collector the inventor designed.
A pioneer in the fight against tobacco and the co-inventor of the nicotine patch, Murray Jarvik, died this week of congestive heart failure, the University of California said Saturday. He was 84.
A team of students led by a chemical engineering professor are working with a New Jersey inventor to advance a new solar thermal collector. The engineering students pointed out that this is the first ...
The University of Virginia Patent Foundation honored the 2008 Edlich-Henderson Inventor of the Year and those University inventors who received U.S. patents and copyrights in 2007 at a special ...
Carl D. Keith, who as a principal inventor of the three-way catalytic converter made major contributions to automotive progress, clean air and human health, died Nov. 9 at a hospital in New Bern, N.C. ...
Polaroid Corp., the iconic inventor of the instant photo camera, filed for bankruptcy protection on Friday amid a fraud probe into its parent company, Petters Group Worldwide.
... two decades
after posing that question, Silver now feels he has the answer. The
British inventor has embarked on a quest that is breathtakingly
ambitious, but which he insists is achievable - to...
(AP) -- A researcher who pioneered the first liquid crystal displays eventually used in computer screens and televisions is among 15 new members of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
ROCHESTER, Minn., March 27 (UPI) -- Dr. Earl Wood, inventor of the high-altitude pressure suit worn by pilots and astronauts, has died in Rochester, Minn. He was 97.
... R. Brookeman the 2009 Edlich-Henderson Inventors of the Year at a ceremony Monday evening. The highest ... U.Va. Patent Foundation, the Edlich-Henderson Inventor of the Year award each year recognizes an ...
The University of Virginia's Patent Foundation recently honored about 50 inventors, including two men who have changed the way doctors diagnose and treat diseases and injuries. WVTF's Sandy Hausman ...
... potentially heading off dangerous episodes and preventing costly emergency room visits and ambulance rides, the inventors said.
Luca Pollonini, a post-doctoral fellow at UH who worked with the team, ...