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Douglas Engelbart was an inventor that was part of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Development began in 1979 and was first implemented in 1981 on a Xerox computer called the "Alto".
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Philips/Sony released the worlds first CD that was invented by James Russell. -
Robert Jarvik, MD had created the artificial heart.
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An Engineer from Motorola named Martin Cooper, developed a hand-held phone known as the DynaTAC. -
A geneticist at the University of Leicester in England. Dr. Alec Jeffreys created DNA finger printing after he made a discovery while studying heredity family disease