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.
James West (born 1931)
George Elwood Smith (born 1930)
Eugene Irving Gordon (1930–2014)
Selman Abraham Waksman (1888–1973)
Leo Sternbach was a Polish American chemist who is credited with first synthesizing benzodiazepines, the main class of tranquilizers.
Leo Sternbach
Villa Adriatic where Leo Sternbach spent his childhood in Opatija, Croatia