Name Year Invention NJ affiliation Seth Boyden 1989 malleable iron Newark, New Jersey worked John Stevens (inventor) 1989 various innovations Hoboken, New Jersey lived Jan A. Rajchman 1989 read-only memory Radio Corporation of America Albert Einstein 1989 theoretical physics Institute for Advanced Study Alfred Vail 1989 telegraph Speedwell Ironworks Thomas A. Edison 1989 various innovations Edison laboratory Leo Sternbach 1989 benzodiazepines Hoffman-La Roche Selman Waksman 1989 streptomycin Rutgers University Roy Weber 1989 Intelligent Network Services - 800 Number Bell Labs Vladimir Zworykin 1989 television Radio Corporation of America Jerome H. Lemelson 1990 Oberlin Smith 1990 magnetic recording Bridgeton, New Jersey lived Hannibal Goodwin 1990 Newark, New Jersey lived Edward Weston (chemist) 1990 New Jersey Institute of Technology Karl G. Jansky 1992 radio telescope Bell Labs Albert Rose (physicist) 1992 video camera tube Radio Corporation of America Paul K. Weimer 1992 thin-film transistor Radio Corporation of America John H. Sinfelt 1992 unleaded gasoline ExxonMobil James Hillier 1992 electron microscope Radio Corporation of America Solomon Andrews (inventor) 1992 dirigible Perth Amboy, New Jersey lived Walter Lincoln Hawkins 1992 Bell Labs Charles Joseph Fletcher 1993 aerospace innovations Franklin, New Jersey lived Sidney Pestka 1993 Hoffmann-La Roche Robert Wendell Lucky 1993 Bell Labs Walter Brattain 1994 transistor Bell Labs William Shockley 1994 transistor Bell Labs John Bardeen 1994 transistor Bell Labs Glenn Dimmick 1995 Sound Motion Picture Recording RCA Les Paul 1996 guitar pickup Mahwah, New Jersey lived Harry F. Olson 1996 Radio Corporation of America James L. Flanagan 1997 Rutgers University Richard Howland Ranger 1997 Radio Corporation of America Alfred Y. Cho 1997 Bell Labs Allen Balcom DuMont 1998 television DuMont Television Network William O. Baker 1998 synthetic rubber Bell Labs Edwin Howard Armstrong 1998 FM radio , regenerative receiver , superheterodyne receiver Alpine, New Jersey worked Arthur Leonard Schawlow 1999 Bell Labs Morton A. Kreitchman 1999 fluid control valves Valcor Engineering Corporation Willis Haviland Carrier 1999 air conditioning Newark, New Jersey worked Simon Lake 2000 submarine innovations Pleasantville, New Jersey born Arthur Nobile 2000 prednisone Newark, New Jersey born Martin Goetz 2000 software Applied Data Research Lee de Forest 2001 audion tube Eger V. Murphree 2001 fluid catalytic cracking ExxonMobil Donald L. Campbell 2001 fluid catalytic cracking ExxonMobil Arun Netravali 2001 HDTV Bell Labs Gerald Ash 2001 Dynamic Non-Hierarchical Routing Bell Labs Herwig Kogelnik 2002 Bell Labs John Augustus Roebling 2002 suspension bridge innovations Trenton, New Jersey worked Samuel Leeds Allen 2004 Flexible Flyer Moorestown Township, New Jersey James M. Early 2004 Early effect Bell Labs Calvin Souther Fuller 2005 photovoltaics Bell Labs Gerard A. Alphonse 2005 IEEE Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie 2006 programming languages Bell Labs Kenneth Lane Thompson 2006 programming languages Bell Labs Harold Stephen Black 2006 negative feedback amplifier Bell Labs Henry Orenstein 2006 various toys Topper Toys James West 2008 electret microphone Bell Labs Eugene I. Gordon 2008 fiber optics innovations Bell Labs George E. Smith 2008 charge-coupled device Bell Labs Willard Boyle 2008 charge-coupled device Bell Labs Gerhard M. Sessler 2008 electret microphone Bell Labs Edward C. Taylor 2008 tetracycline Princeton University Herman Sokol 2009 pemetrexed Bristol-Myers Squibb Michael Francis Tompsett 2010 First Thermal and Charge Coupled Imager Patents , CCD Cameras and MOS Video ADC Bell Labs Lynn Schneemeyer 2011 material science innovations Rutgers University Arthur A. Gertzman 2011 Synthetic Bone Graft Materials, Malleable Paste for Filling Bone Defects Gertzman Enterprises John Siekierka 2011 Research and Development for Anti-Inflammatory Drug and Delivery Device Bell Labs William K. Hagmann 2012 medicinal chemistry innovations Merck & Co Elwin Orton 2012 Breakthroughs and Saving the U.S. Dogwood Industry Rutgers University Shu- Tung Li 2012 Medical Implants for the Repair and Regeneration of Soft Tissue and Bones Collagen Matrix, Inc. Endre Alexander Balazs 2012 Orthopedic Research & Groundbreaking Discoveries in Utilizing Hyaluron for Therapeutic Purposes Columbia University Medical Center ; Biomatrix, Inc. (NJ Resident) C. Frank Wheatley Jr. 2013 Power semiconductor devices and integrated circuits and most notably the Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) RCA Leo Schenker 2013 Patented inventions and discoveries related to touch tone dialing and its immense impact in the public switch telephone network (PSTN) IEEE Sander G. Mills 2013 Discoveries in cancer research and most notably the substance Aprepitant, which has had worldwide impact in patient compliance/tolerance for chemotherapy and other cancer treatments Merck & Co. Adel A. Ahmed 2013 Bipolar integrated circuit design and worldwide use of the Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) integrated circuit RCA Philip Anderson 2013 Elucidating the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, which allowed for the development of electronic switching and memory devices in computers Bell Labs Jack Craft 2014 TV and radio integrated circuit designs RCA Rajiv V. Joshi 2014 Development of integrated circuits (IC), memory and predictive analytics Columbia University (NJ Resident) John R. Pierce 2014 Information theory and global and satellite communications Bell Labs Vladimir S. Ban 2014 Semi-conductor and optical network technologies RCA Krishan K. Sabnani 2014 Global communication networks Bell Labs Nikola Tesla 2014 Patented inventions transforming electrical engineering principles including alternating current (AC) and the radio Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing Edward Cecelski VCR , metal disk player RCA Dennis D. Jamiolkowski 2015 Absorbable polymers and their applications in implantable medical and surgical devices Ethicon Inc. John Fenn 2015 Electrospray Mass Spectrometry (ESMS) technique used in biomedical research Princeton University Owen O'Connor 2015 Patented work on novel small molecules, including a pioneering drug portfolio for treatment of lymphoma Columbia University (NJ Resident) George Feldstein 2015 Audio, visual and automation technologies Crestron Electronics Salvatore Salamone 2016 Oncology research, Therapeutic Diagnostics, health care and medical device services Rutgers University ; Saladax Biomedical (NJ Resident) Yann LeCun 2016 Image and speech recognition and advent of Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) Bell Labs Donald Landry 2016 Cardiovascular Biology to cancer research Columbia University (NJ Resident) Howard Fidel 2016 Biomedical device patents and medical ultrasound NJIT 
