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| - The MIT150 is a list published by the Boston Globe, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011, listing 150 of the most significant innovators, inventions or ideas from MIT, its alumni, faculty, and related people and organizations in the 150 year history of the institute. The top 30 innovators and inventions on the list are: (en)
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| - The MIT150 is a list published by the Boston Globe, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011, listing 150 of the most significant innovators, inventions or ideas from MIT, its alumni, faculty, and related people and organizations in the 150 year history of the institute. The top 30 innovators and inventions on the list are: 1.
* Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web 2.
* Eric Lander, team leader for sequencing one-third of the Human Genome 3.
* William Shockley, inventor of the solid-state transistor 4.
* Ray Tomlinson, inventor of the "@" symbol use in email addresses 5.
* Phillip A. Sharp, founder of Biogen Idec 6.
* Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson, founders of Digital Equipment Corp. 7.
* Helen Greiner and Colin Angle, founders of iRobot Corp. 8.
* Ellen Swallow Richards, nutrition expert, and the first woman admitted to MIT 9.
* Amar Bose, founder of Bose Corporation 10.
* Ivan Getting, founder of Aerospace Corp., co-inventor of GPS 11.
* Salvador Luria, father of modern biology 12.
* Joseph Jacobson, co-founder of E Ink 13.
* Dan Bricklin, Bob Frankston, inventors of VisiCalc 14.
* Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive 15.
* Daniel Lewin, F. Thomson Leighton, co-founders of Akamai 16.
* Vannevar Bush, science advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, founder of Raytheon, father of the National Science Foundation 17.
* Pietro Belluschi, dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning 18.
* Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Leonard Adleman, inventors of RSA cryptography 19.
* Charles Draper, inventor of the first inertial guidance system 20.
* Herbert Kalmus, Daniel Comstock, cofounders of Technicolor 21.
* John Dorrance, inventor of Campbell Soup 22.
* David Baltimore, Nobel laureate 23.
* Robert Weinberg, cofounder of the Whitehead Institute 24.
* William Thompson Sedgwick, founder of the Harvard School of Public Health 25.
* Alfred P. Sloan, CEO of General Motors 26.
* William Hewlett, cofounder of Hewlett Packard 27.
* Marc Raibert, inventor of BigDog 28.
* Hugh Herr, founder of iWalk and head of the Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab 29.
* Hoyt C. Hottel, oil industry pioneer 30.
* Robert Swanson, cofounder of Genentech (en)
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