MIT150
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MIT150 Awarded for The most significant innovators, inventions, or ideas from MIT, MIT alumni, and other MIT-related people and organizations[ 1] Country United States Presented by Boston Globe First awarded 2011 Website MIT150
The MIT150 is a list published by the Boston Globe , in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011, listing 150 of the most significant innovators, inventions or ideas from MIT, its alumni, faculty, and related people and organizations in the 150 year history of the institute.
The top 30 innovators and inventions on the list are:
Tim Berners-Lee , inventor of the World Wide Web
Eric Lander , team leader for sequencing one-third of the Human Genome
William Shockley , inventor of the solid-state transistor
Ray Tomlinson , inventor of the "@" symbol use in email addresses
Phillip A. Sharp , founder of Biogen Idec
Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson , founders of Digital Equipment Corp.
Helen Greiner and Colin Angle , founders of iRobot Corp.
Ellen Swallow Richards , nutrition expert, and the first woman admitted to MIT
Amar Bose , founder of Bose Corporation
Ivan Getting , founder of Aerospace Corp. , co-inventor of GPS
Salvador Luria , father of modern biology
Joseph Jacobson , co-founder of E Ink
Dan Bricklin , Bob Frankston , inventors of VisiCalc
Brewster Kahle , founder of the Internet Archive
Daniel Lewin , F. Thomson Leighton , co-founders of Akamai
Vannevar Bush , science advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt , founder of Raytheon , father of the National Science Foundation
Pietro Belluschi , dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning
Ron Rivest , Adi Shamir , Leonard Adleman , inventors of RSA cryptography
Charles Draper , inventor of the first inertial guidance system
Herbert Kalmus , Daniel Comstock , cofounders of Technicolor
John Dorrance , inventor of Campbell Soup
David Baltimore , Nobel laureate
Robert Weinberg , cofounder of the Whitehead Institute
William Thompson Sedgwick , founder of the Harvard School of Public Health
Alfred P. Sloan , CEO of General Motors
William Hewlett , cofounder of Hewlett Packard
Marc Raibert , founder of Boston Dynamics and creator of BigDog
Hugh Herr , founder of iWalk and head of the Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab
Hoyt C. Hottel , oil industry pioneer
Robert Swanson , cofounder of Genentech
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