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