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2001: Peter S. Gilfoyle
is the founder and president of OptiComp Corporation (OCC), Zephyr Cove. an
optoelectronic devices for fiber optic networks company. Mr. Guilfoyle holds six
patents and has three in application. He is a three-time winner of the
prestigious SBIR Tibbetts Model of Excellence Award.
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2000: Dr. John Whitney
, President and CEO of Itronics Inc., is a certified environmental manager in
the state of Nevada. He founded the company in 1986 to help the cities of Reno
and Sparks solve a problem of too much photowaste silver getting into the
Truckee River.
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1999: Thomas R. Potter
is founder of Reno A&E, a company that manufacturers traffic loop signal
detection systems. He holds a number of patents in the area of vehicle detection.
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1990: Donald W. Schmanski, Sr.
of Carson City created flexible highway signs, pathfinder floor tiles for the
visually impaired, and insulation materials for space vehicle rocket nozzles.
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1998: Paul C. Fisher
is founder and president of Fisher Space Pen Co. in Boulder. The company sold
more than eight million dollars worth of pens in 1997.
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1989: Steven P. Shearing, M.D.
of Las Vegas is an innovator in opthalmology who has developed and
commercialized the first compressible posterior chamber intraocular lens which
revolutionized cataract surgery.
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1997: Stanley Klainer
is a physical analytical chemist who lives in Henderson. He holds 17 U.S.
patents that focus on the use of optical waveguide chemical and biochemical
sensors for industrial, environmental, and military monitoring of hazardous and
toxic species in the air and in water.
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1986: George S Sanders
of Las Vegas developed products in agricultural aviation engineering, and
artificial intelligence for sensing and analyzing acoustic signals.
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1996: Gary W Nelson
is President of Delta Industries in Reno, manufacturers of cabinet hardware. He
holds twelve national and international patents solving demanding design and
manufacturing issues and in the area of drawer slide systems.
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1985: John A. Kleppe
of Scientific Engineering Instruments in Sparks is a fourth generation Nevadan
and professor of electrical engineering at UNR who has inventions and
developments in the fields of digital electronics, sophisticated acoustic
sensors, weather radar systems, 3 axis acoustic Doppler radar and satellite
communications.
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1994. Jerome H. Lemelson
of Incline Village is one of the most prolific American inventors next to Edison
and Land. Mr. Lemelson has more than 500 patents dealing with industrial robots,
bar coding scanning systems, video cassettes, recorders, fax machines, and
magnetic tape drives.
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1984: Robert Mendenhall
of Las Vegas invented the asphalt pavement recycling machine. He has
aggressively urged conservation of natural resources through recycling.
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1993: Charles G. Hutter, III
is founder of Click Bond in Carson City, a company that creates a variety of
adhesive bonded fasteners used in aircraft, space, and marine industries. Mr.
Hutter has more than 40 patents.
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1984: William P. Lear
of Reno holds more than 150 patents in radio and electromechanical devices plus
numerous aviation improvements including the well known Lear Jet.
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1992: Mr. Carl Parise
is founder of Thermax in Stead. Mr. Parise's product became the first U.L.
approved steam cleaner that sparked the development of a multi billion dollar
commercial cleaning industry and a rental industry that exceeds two hundred
million dollars in annual sales.
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1983: Donald E. Bently
is founder of Bently Nevada Corporation in Minden. He developed the eddy current
proximity transducers which are used in the monitoring and diagnostics of
rotating machinery.
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1991: John P. Chisholm
founded the Sierra Nevada Corporation in Reno, a defense electronics firm. His
work and inventions were in the fields of microwave aircraft landing systems,
the U.S. Navy's hands-off automatic carrier landing systems, precision aircraft
navigational systems, emergency locating systems, and collision avoidance
systems.
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1982: Austin G. Cooley
of Reno holds more than 75 patents including the FAX machine and improved
navigation instruments. He first experimented with photo transmission over
telephone lines in the early 1930's.
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1981: Alessandro O. Dandini
of Reno holds 22 American and international patents and is noted for his
invention of the three-way light bulb, unique building blocks, and the spherical
collection of solar energy. The Dandini Research Park, home of the Desert
Research Institute in Reno, is named after him.
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