Friday, March 5, 2021

George Edward Alcorn Jr., holds eight patents on over thirty inventions, including the imaging X-ray spectrometer (1984)


 

 

 

George Edward Alcorn Jr.

(1940 - )

Physicist, Engineer

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George E. Alcorn Courtesy of NASA/Goddard/Debora McCallum

 

George E. Alcorn, a former assistant director at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is a leader in semiconductor device development and technology transfer. 

 

 He is also an award-winning inventor. He holds eight patents on over thirty inventions, including the imaging X-ray spectrometer (1984), a device for identifying materials through their visual X-ray spectra. 

 

For this spectrometer, he received both U.S. and Japanese patents and the NASA/GSFC Inventor of the Year award.

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