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Inventors Hall of Fame Inducts Seven Immigrants

By immigrationprof

When it celebrates the spirit of invention next month, Akron’s National Inventors Hall of Fame will quietly acknowledge a little-known facet of American innovation: Seven of the 16 people being honored as great American inventors are immigrants.

The class of 2009 inductees, focused on the people who pioneered high technology, includes inventors from Egypt, China, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Korea and Canada. Receiving a lifetime achievement award will be Andy Grove, the Hungarian-born co-founder of Intel Corp.  Click here and here for more.

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