New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame


The New Jersey Inventor's Hall of Fame was established in 1987 to honor individuals and corporations in New Jersey for their inventions. Award recipients are recognized at the annual Award Banquet Dinner. The New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame operated from 1987 to 2002 at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, from 2003 to 2007 with support from the Research and Development Council of New Jersey. Starting in 2008 it was under the aegis of Stevens Institute of Technology Office of Academic Entrepreneurship. In 2010, Greenberg Traurig became a co-sponsor of the organization.

Hall of Fame Inductees


Other Hall of Fame Inductees



Inventors of the Year


Other Inventors of the Year


Innovator Award

Corporate Award

Trustees Award

  • Representative Rush Holt
  • Dr. Ralph Izzo
  • Dr. Jeong Kim
  • Dr. Stephen Chu
  • Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.
  • Greg Olsen, Ph.D.

    Outstanding Contributions Award

  • Dr. Gertrude M. Clarke
  • Inventor Harry Roman

  • Graduate Student Award

  • 2005
  • * Yuanqiu Luo
  • * Shuangquan Wang
  • 2006
  • * Sudhakar Shet
  • * Dimitrios Zarkadas
  • 2008
  • * Zhiqiang Gao
  • * Amey Shevtekar
  • * Hong Zhang
  • 2009
  • * Chuan-Bi Lin
  • * Ziqian Cecilia Dong
  • * Dipshikha Biswas
  • 2010
  • * Ms. Jingjing Zhang
  • * Dr. Xiaoling Chen
  • * Dr. Asli Ergun
  • 2011
  • * Milan Begliarbekov
  • * Komlan Egoh
  • * Andrew Ihnen
  • * Eric Stroud
  • 2012
  • * Xiaoling Fu
  • * Linh Le
  • * Seyed Babak Mahjour
  • * Ishan Wathuthanthri
  • * Jie Yang
  • * Yan Zhang
  • 2013
  • * Xuening Chen, Ph.D.
  • * Chun-Hao Lo, Ph.D.
  • * Khondaker Salehin, Ph.D.
  • * Wenting Zhang
  • 2014
  • *Hui Chen
  • *Yexin Gu
  • *Tao Han

    Special Award

  • 1993
  • * Bonnie L. James, Cherica Inc., Tuckerton
  • * Italo Marchiony, Hoboken
  • 1994
  • * Donald J. Sauer
  • * James T. Reynolds
  • * John J. Frins
  • * James Edward Johnstone
  • 1995
  • * Allan H. Willinger
  • * Michael D. Mintz
  • * William J. von Liebig
  • 1996
  • * Barbara Derkoski
  • * Otto Niederer
  • 1997
  • * Martin C. Pettesch
  • 1998
  • * William Lowell of Maplewood, New Jersey for the golf tee
  • * Quentin T. Kelly, Pennington and WorldWater Corp., Pennington
  • * Melvin Levinson
  • 1999
  • * Lisa Gable
  • * William Greeley
  • 2000
  • * Stephan Schaffan, Jr.
  • 2001
  • * David Brown
  • * Wellington Titus
  • * Fred Topinka
  • 2002
  • * Dave Hammond
  • 2004
  • * Dr. Phillip J. Petillo
  • * Dr. Majid Abou-Gharbia
  • 2009
  • * Michael J. Flowers
  • 2010
  • * Dr. Timothy Chang
  • 2012
  • * Ken Zorovich & Yos Kumthampinij & John C. Earle
  • 2013
  • * Barry H. Katz, M.D.
  • 2014
  • * Ronnie Z. Bochner, M.D.

    Advancement of Invention Award

  • New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey
  • New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology
  • Gil Zweig
  • Dr. Dr. Rainer Martini
  • Dr. Dr. Hsuan Lillian Labowsky
  • Dr. Yu-Dong Yao, Ph.D.
  • Dr. Beatrice Hicks, D.Sc.
  • Dr. Leslie Brunell, P.E., Ph.D
  • Dr. Beth McGrath, Mercedes McKay & Jason Sayres
  • Dr. Joshua Weston