- March 28, 2024
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A NASA engineer and a Nobel Laureate are among a group of seven inventors recently inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame, which is at USF in Tampa.
The 2016 Hall of Fame Class will be inducted at the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame third annual induction ceremony and gala Sept. 16. Nominees must have at least one U.S. patent and a connection to Florida.
“Collectively, the seven 2016 inductees hold more than 90 U.S. patents,” says Randy Berridge, chair of the selection committee. “Among them are representatives of two storied U.S. agencies, a nonprofit research institute and five Florida research universities.”
The seven inductees to the Florida Investors Hall of Fame class of 2016 include:
William Dalton, founder and CEO of M2Gen, a subsidiary of Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa. He holds 10 U.S. patents;
D. Yogi Goswami, professor of chemical engineering and director of the Clean Energy Research Center at the University of South Florida. He holds 16 U.S. patents;
Alan George Marshall, professor of chemistry and founding director and chief scientist of the Ion Cyclotron Resonance program at Florida State University. Marshall holds eight U.S. patents;
Nicholas Muzyczka, professor of microbiology and the Edward R. Koger Eminent Scholar for Cancer Research at the University of Florida. He holds 15 U.S. patents;
Jacqueline Quinn, a NASA environment engineer who leads diverse environment chemistry research at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. Quinn holds 12 U.S. patents;
Andrew Schally, Nobel Laureate, medical research scientist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, professor of pathology at the University of Miami and chief of the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center Endocrine, Polypeptide and Cancer Institute. The 1977 Nobel Prize winner holds 32 U.S. patents;
M.J. Soileau, vice president for research and commercialization and professor of optics and photonics, electrical and computer engineer and physics at the University of Central Florida. Soileau holds 6 U.S. patents.
The 2016 Hall of Fame Class will be officially inducted at the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame third annual induction ceremony and gala Sept. 16. Nominees must have at least one U.S. patent and a connection to Florida. The Florida Inventors Hall of Fame was founded in 2013.