R&D 100 Archive of Winners
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| Product | Organization | Co-Developers |
|---|---|---|
| 256-KBit CMOS Static Random Access Memory (TC55257P) | Toshiba Corp. | Susumu Kohyama |
| Accucount | Baird Corp. | Edward H. Hutchinson |
| Arc-Coal | Atlantic Research Corp. | R. S. Scheffee |
| ARDS | Arizona State University, NASA (Lewis Research Center) | H. D. Nelson, David P. Fleming |
| Aries | IRT Corp. | John Adams, Ed Ross |
| Auto-Trac | Varian Associates | Wilmer Bottoms, Martin Hutchinson, Frederick Turner |
| Automated Seismic Processor | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Thomas V. McEvilly |
| Automatic Digitizer for Multicolor Drawings | Hitachi Ltd. (Central Research Laboratory) | Shigeru Kakumoto |
| Automatic Headspace Sampler | Perkin-Elmer Corp. (Bodenseewerk) | |
| Beam Signal PickUp Test Facility | Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | J. D. Simpson |
| BIZEC Permionic Membrane Electrolyzer | PPG Industries | |
| CABOT Alloy 214 | Cabot Corp. (Wrought Products ) | Robert B. Herchenroeder |
| CARA | Gould Inc. (NavCom Systems) | Steve White, Phil Chambers |
| Centricon | W. R. Grace & Co. (Amicon Corp.) | William Bowers |
| CIRCOM | Broken Hill Proprietary Co. | D. A. J. Swinkels, P. M. Fredericks |
| Computrak 6100 | Gulton Industries Inc. ( Graphic Instruments ) | John Olobri, Bob Lamoreaux |
| Copper Indium Selenide/Cadium Zinc Solar Cell | Boeing Aerospace Corp., Solar Energy Research Institute | R. A. Mikelsen, W. S. Chen |
| Diffuse Reflectance Cell | Harrick Scientific Corp., Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant | , G. L. Powell, N. R. Smyrl, N. J. Harrick |
| Distributed Analyzer Control System | Combustion Engineering (Process Analytics) | |
| Double Filtration/Bioluminescence System | United Technologies Packard | TenLin S. Tsai, Norma J. Ramey, Leroy J. Everett |
| Electonic-Transaction Analyzer | Hand Made Software Co., National Bureau of Standards | Phillip Gaudette, Robert B. J. Warnar |
| Electrolytic Method for Lead Recovery | U.S. Bureau of Mines | Ernest R. Cole, A. Y. Lee, D. L. Paulson |
| Energy Dispersive X-Ray Detecting Unit | North American Philips Corp. | Wilbur Cox |
| Fera | LeCroy Research Systems Corp. (European Products) | Jean Pierre Vittet |
| Flow Injection System | National Bureau of Standards | Kenneth W. Pratt |
| Ford Lambda Oxygen Analyzer | Ford Motor Co. | James W. Butler, Alex D. Colvin |
| Gallium Arsenide Schottky Power Rectifier | General Electric Co. | |
| Gas Chromatograph HP-5890A | Hewlett-Packard Co. | |
| Glass-to-Metal Sealing Glass | Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Robert J. Eagan, Rod K. Quinn |
| Gold Capacitor, F Series | Matsushita Electric Industrial Corp. | Atsushi Nishino, Akihiko Yoshida, Ichiro Tanahashi |
| Hazardous Gas Monitor | Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Joseph R. Stetter, Solomon Zaromb, William R. Penrose, Melvin W. Findlay |
| HGAS 500 | Honeywell Inc. | Steven Jamison, Peter Roberts |
| Hitaceram SC-101 | Hitachi Ltd. | Mitsuru Ura |
| Hot Wire Air Flow Meter | Hitachi Ltd. | Yutaka Nishimura |
| HP 8451A | Hewlett-Packard Co. (Scientific Instruments) | Richard E. Monnier |
| Ion Implantation System Z-100 | Eaton Corp. (Zymet Inc.) | Peter Rose, Andrew Wittkower, James Hirvonen |
| Ion-Selective Electrodes (ISE 30-47-00, ISE 30-13-00) | HNU Systems Inc. | J. N. Driscoll, E. S. Atwood |
| Ionpac/Membrane Reactor | Dionex Corp., Dow Chemical Co. | |
| Kodacolor VR1000 | Eastman Kodak Co. | |
| Kodavue | Eastman Kodak Co. (Health Sciences Markets) | Joseph Yudelson |
| Large Area Avalanche Photodiode | Radiation Monitoring Devices Inc. | Greg Reiff |
| Laser Interior Profile Scanner | Toyota Inc. (Central R&D Lab.) | Nobuaki Takahashi, Satoshi Sugiyama, Tetsu Kachi |
| Liquid Carriers for Tissue Culture | General Electric Co. | Charles R. Keese, Ivar Giaever |
| Liquid Membrane Oxygen Enrichment System | Bend Research Inc. | Ian C. Roman, Richard W. Baker |
| Logic and Memory Programmer, 160 Series | Valley Data Sciences Inc. | John M. French |
| Megatorque | Motornetics Corp. | Ross Welburn |
| MIE 720 Magnetron Ion Etcher | Materials Research Corp. | Steven Hurwitt, Walter Class |
| Model 1 Spectrographic Nitrogen Detector | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | Ronald J. Walker |
| Model 4500 Ash Monitor | Coalscan Pty. Ltd. (Mineral Control Instrumentation Ltd.), Commonwealth Scientific & Ind. Res. Organization (Mineral Physics), University of Queensland (Mineral Research Centre) | W.J. Howarth, B.D. Soweby, G.J. Lyman |
| Model 54-02 Far-UV Absorbance Detector | HNU Systems Inc. | John N. Driscoll |
| Model 6050 Duoplasmatron Microbeam Ion Gun and Controls | Perkin-Elmer Corp. (PHI ) | David G. Welkie |
| Model C1822x Photon Counting Image Acquisition System | Hamamatsu Photonics K. K. | Yutaka Tsuchiya |
| Model M-2 Control System | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | H. L. Martin, J. N. Herndon, P. E. Satterlee |
| Model PFC-200 Polycold | Polycold Systems Inc. | Dale J. Missimer |
| Models 6850/6820 CF Indicator Sweat Test System | Medtronic Inc. | Gary Lattin, Darrell Untereker, Boone Owens |
| MUCH | Dresser Industries (Jeffrey Mining) | Edward T. Voight |
| Multiple-Beam Antenna System | Ford Aerospace & Comminications Corp., NASA (Lewis Research Center), TRW, Electronic Systems Group | Tom Roberts, R. M. Mybre, W. C. Wong |
| Multiport Video RAM TMS4161 | Texas Instruments Inc. | Raymond Pinkam |
| Network Analyzer HP 3577A | Hewlett-Packard Co. (Lake Stevens Instrument) | |
| Neuromagnetic Current Probe | Vanderbilt University | John P. Wikswo |
| OCRV595 | Toshiba Corp. | Masaaki Yoshizawa |
| Oxygen Reducing Enzyme System | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | H. I. Adler, W. D. Crow |
| PCB Field Test Kit | McGraw Edison Co. (Power Systems ) | Ted Handel |
| Photo-optical Blade Vibration Data Acquisition Sys. | NASA (Lewis Research Center), Shaker Research Corp. | Louis J. Kiraly, J. Frarey |
| Pitt-Char | PPG Industries | T. A Ward, W. G. Boberski, J. A. Seiner |
| Pro-Drone | Stauffer Chemical Co., U.S. Dept. of Agriculture | , Meyer Schwartz |
| Process for Manufacturing Powder Metallurgy | Cabot Corp. (Engineered Products Group Technology) | Ronald D. Rivers |
| Process for Treating Fission Waste for the Recovery of Noble Metals | Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories (Dept. of Energy) | Charles A. Rohrmann, Oswald J. Wick |
| Prompt/Delayed In-Core Detector Assembly | Babcock & Wilcox (Lynchburg Research Center), Empire State Electric Energy Research Corp. | , Holland D. Warren |
| QBC Centrifugal Hematology System | Beckton Dickinson & Co. (Clay Adams Div.) | |
| Radiopharmaceutical Delivery System | Brookhaven National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Richard M. Lambrecht |
| Rare Gas Atom Counter | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | G. S. Hurst |
| Rimplast | Petrarch Systems Inc. | Barry Arkles |
| Rotatable Magnetron | Shatterproof Glass Corp. | Harold E. McKelvey |
| RPC Models A-F High-Voltage, High-Power Switch and Circuit Breaker | NASA (Lewis Research Center) | John C. Sturman |
| Scinticor | Baird Corp. (Nuclear ) | Donald W. Heyda |
| Silicon-Detector X-Ray Spectrometer LBL Model 21X6551, Tennelec Model TC243 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Fred S. Goulding |
| Spherical Dipole Probe System | Southwest Research Institute | Homi Gorakhpurwalla, Edward H. Cooper, Melvin Johnson |
| Spout Evaporator | Solar Energy Research Institute | Desikan Bharathan |
| Stratus | American Hospital Corp. (American Dade) | Joseph L. Giegel |
| Superconducting Magnetic-Energy Storage System | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | John D. Rogers |
| Superconducting Magnets | Oxford Magnet Technology Ltd. | Ian McDougall |
| Surface-Acoustic-Wave Oscillator 674MOS01 | Matsushita Electric Industrial Corp. | Kentaro Setsune |
| Synchrotron X-Ray Small Angle Scattering Instrumentation | Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Charles Borso |
| TAC Process | Alcan International Ltd. | |
| Targeted Chlorination System | Tennessee Valley Authority | Robert D. Moss, Stephen P. Gautney, Patrick A. March |
| Thermal Ionization Process for Sulfur | National Bureau of Standards | P. J. Paulsen, W. R. Kelly |
| Thermal Scanner for Industrial Coating Bonds | Westinghouse Hanford Co. | Donald R. Green, Clarence R. Wandling |
| TIG Welding Vision System | General Electric Co. | |
| Toposcopic Catheter | National Institute of Health | Daniel Shook, Seth R. Goldstein |
| Traveling Bed Ion Exchange Contactor | Dow Chemical Co. (Chemical) | Gary Phillips |
| Turnkey System Model 8308-1-60TC | Sono-Tek Corp. | Harvey L. Berger |
| Ultrasonically-Pulsed Neutron Time-of Flight Spectrometer | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | H. A. Mook, G. K. Schulze |
| Vacuum Ultraviolet VUV Absorption Spectrometer | Acton Research Corp. | |
| Vanguard I | Advanco Corp. | Byron J. Washom |
| Vapor-Mist Dielectrics | Electric Power Research Institute, Westinghouse Electric Corp. | , Ronald T. Harrold |
| Video Voice | Ames Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Geoge Holland, John Homer, Walter Struve |
| XL Series Data System | Varian Associates | Steve Smallcombe |
| XU 292 Bismaleimide | Ciba-Geigy Corp. (Resins) | John J. King, Sheik Zahir, Mohammad Chaudhari |
| Zimmerman Cell Fusion | GCA Corp. (Precision Scientific Group) | Ulrich Zimmerman |