Inventors’ Corner: Hall of Fame induction for magnetic memory breakthrough
March 2, 2012 | Written by: IBM Research Editorial Staff
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Two IBM scientists, Drs. Lubomyr Romankiw and David Thompson (retired), will be inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame on May 2, 2012 for their three U.S. patents that revolutionized data storage density and device ubiquity.
IBM has more than 4,000 active storage patents. |
- Norman Joseph Woodland; Optically Scanned Barcode (UPC code), inducted 2011
- Louis Stevens: Data Storage Machine, inducted 2008
- William Goddard: Magnetic Disk Drive, inducted 2007
- John Lynott: Magnetic Disk Drive, inducted 2007
- Samuel Blum: LASIK Eye Surgery, inducted 2002
- Rangaswamy Srinivasan: LASIK Eye Surgery, inducted 2002
- Jim Wynne: LASIK Eye Surgery, inducted 2002
- Mark Dean: Microcomputer System with Bus Control Means for Peripheral Processing Devices, inducted 1997
- Dennis Moeller: Microcomputer System with Bus Control Means for Peripheral Processing Devices, inducted 1997
- Robert Heath Dennard: Field-Effect Transistor Memory DRAM, inducted 1997
- Gerd Karl Binnig: Scanning Tunneling Microscope, inducted 1994
- Heinrich Rohrer: Scanning Tunneling Microscope, inducted 1994
Other IBMMilestones in Memory
RAMAC | |
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The Floppy Disk |
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DRAM |
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Magnetic Tape Storage |
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Rewritable Magneto-Optical Disk |
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Racetrack Memory |
Atomic Scale Magnetic Memory |
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