The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) recently announced that seven inventors from the state of Georgia will be inducted into the 2022 class of NAI Fellows. The NAI Fellows Program was established to highlight academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.
The 2022 class of NAI Fellows included 169 distinguished inventors from 110 different research universities, governmental and non-profit research institutions worldwide. The 2022 NAI Fellows from Georgia are from Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Georgia and include: George R. Painter, Raymond Joseph Dingledine, Adegboyega K. Oyelere, Zhong Lin Wang, Madhavan Swaminathan, Naola Ferguson-Noel, and Gerardus Josephus Boons.
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