Minnesota
Inventors Hall of Fame
Year Inventor
2020 Charles P. Strite
2019 Dr. Sumita B. Mitra
2018 Professor James J. “Crash” Ryan II
2017 Matthew T. Scholz
2015 Ralph Samuelson
2014 Scott Crump
2013 Seymour Cray
2012 Carl A. Caspers
2011 Harold Edward "Bud" Froehlich
2011 Richard Thorud
2010 Dr. Norman Borlaug
2010 Dr. Robert Vince
2008 Rose Totino
2007 Mark W. Keymer
2006 Dr. Frank D. Werner
2005 Oliver Crosby
2004 Cyril Keller & Louis Keller
2002 Arthur L. Fry
2001 Harry Wenger
1999 Daniel F. Przybylski
1998 William N. Mayer
1997 John T. Gondek
Earl Masterson
1996 Melvin Pass
LeRoy Buffington
1995 Joseph Killpatrick
Earl Bakken
1994 Carol M. Ford
Harold Fratzke
1993 Norman B. Mears
Dr. C. Walton Lillehei
1992 Albert M. Butz
Takuzo (Tak) Tsuchiya
1991 Edwin Gustave Staude
Merton M. Bottenmiller
1990 Joseph O. Thorsheim
Walter W. Moe
1989 Reuben A. Kaplan
Patsy O. Sherman
1988 Carl G. Kronmiller
Dr. Henry Buchwald
1987 Clifford L. Jewett
B. Hubert Pinckaers
Carl W. Oja
1986 Floyd E. Buschbom
Richard V. DeLeo
1985 Lynn L. Charlson
Dr. Izaak M. Kolthoff
1984 Glen M. Dye
Ebenhard S. (Gandy) Gandrud
1983 Herbert Francis Dalglish
Dr. Owen Harding Wangensteen
1982 Dr. Alfred O. C. Nier
Dr. Alexander P. Anderson
1981 Ralph C. Peabody
William L. Carlson, Jr.
1980 Richard T. Cornelius
Frank A. Donaldson
Francis G. Okie
D. Gilman Taylor
1979 Edward W. Davis
Franklin Chatfield
Dr. Robert Morris Page
1978 Richard G. Drew
Henry G. Lykken, Sr.
Dr. Otto H. Schmitt
1976 Willis Gille