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