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William Marsh Rice University
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William Marsh Rice University
— 567 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#1,510
of
106,120
Top 2%
919
inventors
567
Patents All Time
Top Inventors at William Marsh Rice University
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
919
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
James M. Tour
86
2
Richard E. Smalley
75
3
Daniel T. Colbert
51
#4
Jason H. Hafner
38
#5
Jie Liu
37
#5
Robert H. Hauge
37
#7
Andrew G. Rinzler
36
#8
Pavel Nikolaev
34
#9
Hongjie Dai
33
#10
Andreas Thess
32
#10
Ting Guo
32
#12
Nancy J. Halas
27
#13
Ken Smith
26
#14
Richard G. Baraniuk
25
#15
Pulickel M. Ajayan
23
#16
Andrew R. Barron
21
#16
Ka-Yiu San
21
#18
Kenneth A. Smith
20
#19
Michael S. Wong
19
#19
Valery N. Khabashesku
19
#21
Aydin Babakhani
18
#21
John L. Margrave
18
#23
Peter Nordlander
17
#24
Peter Boul
15
#25
George N. Bennett
14
#26
Enrique V. Barrera
13
#27
Howard K. Schmidt
12
#27
W. Carter Kittrell
12
#29
Kyriacos C. Nicolaou
11
#30
Antonios G. Mikos
10
#31
Haiqing Peng
9
#31
Jordan Miller
9
#31
Matteo Pasquali
9
#34
Dmitry Kosynkin
8
#34
Muhammad M. Rahman
8
#34
Ramon Gonzalez
8
#37
Ashok Veeraraghavan
7
#37
Christopher A. Dyke
7
#37
Chad Huffman
7
#37
Darrell Pilling
7
#37
David Zhang
7
#37
Duy X. Luong
7
#37
Edward W. Knightly
7
#37
Edward T. Mickelson
7
#37
John S. Olson
7
#37
Mark Davenport
7
#37
Richard Gomer
7
#37
Rodrigo Villegas Salvatierra
7
#37
Seyed Mohammad Sajadi
7
#37
Yilun Li
7
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