Friday, March 5, 2010

Contributions to Society


Jewel Plummer Cobb
Biologist (Cell), Physiologist (Cell)

Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to the Advancement of Women
and Underrepresented Minorities, National Science Foundation (1993)



Guitar Robert Flemming ,Jr
Player Piano Joseph Dickinson
Cellular Phone Henry Sampson

George Carruthers (1939 - ) invented the far ultraviolet electrographic camera, used in the 1972 Apollo 16 mission. This invention revealed new features of Earth's far-outer atmosphere and deep-space objects from the perspective of the lunar surface. Carruthers was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame in 2003.

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