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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