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Roscoe G. Dickinson
Introduction of X-ray crystallography to America
Stephanie Kwolek
Invention of Kevlar
Katherine Burr Blodgett
Invention of non-reflecting or 'invisible' glass
Norman Borlaug
Improvement of agricultural practices and wheat production
Harry Brearley
Discovery of stainless steel
Gordon Moore
Co-founder of Intel and Moore's Law
Robert H. Wentorf Jr.
Synthesis of cubic boron nitride and diamond
Charles Martin Hall
Development of the process for extracting aluminum from ore
Marie Curie
Radioactivity discovery, advances in X-ray technology
Alfred Nobel
Invention of dynamite and other explosives
William Shockley
Co-inventor of the transistor, research on semiconductors
M. Stanley Whittingham
Development of the lithium-ion battery
William D. Coolidge
Development of ductile tungsten and the X-ray tube
Howard Hughes
Advances in aviation technology, development of the H-4 Hercules
Herbert Kroemer
Pioneer in the field of semiconductor heterostructures
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