Joseph Jacobson
Joseph Jacobson (born June 28, 1965 in
E Ink Corporation, Gen9, Inc., and Kovio
, is on the scientific board of several more companies (such as Epitome Biosystems).
Education and career
Jacobson received an
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral research associate at Stanford University
in experimental and theoretical nonlinear non-local quantum systems. While at Stanford, he set the world record for the shortest pulse ever generated by a laser (in optical cycles).
Jacobson first had the idea for the e-book in 1993, while working on his
postdoctoral research in quantum mechanics.[3]
In 1997, Jacobson along with JD Albert, Barrett Comiskey, Russ Wilcox and Jerome Rubin founded E Ink Corporation.[4]
In 1999, MIT's Technology Review named Jacobson as one of the
TR100, one of the most influential inventors under the age of 35.[5] He invented nanoparticle–based ink that can print on a flexible computer processor using an inkjet printer.[6] He was awarded the Gutenberg Prize of the International Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz in 2000. In 2001, he received a Discovery magazine award for technological innovation. In 2002, he received a National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Award. In 2013 Jacobson received the Wilhelm Exner Medal.[7] On 5 May 2016, Jacobson was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his work in developing E Ink.[8]
References
- S2CID 204998708.
- ^ Tu, Chau. "How Electronic Ink Was Invented". sciencefriday.com. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
- ^ Charles Platt (May 1997). "Digital Ink". Wired Magazine. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
- ^ Klein, Alec. "A New Printing Technology Sets Off a High-Stakes Race". wsj.com. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
- ^ "Innovators under 35". MIT Technology Review. 1999. Retrieved January 26, 2013.
- ISBN 978-0-7645-8368-1. Retrieved 2 September 2010.
- ^ Joseph M Jacobson, retrieved on 20 March 2020 in Wilhelmexner.org
- ^ Primozec, Ursa (27 May 2016). "Interview with Barrett Comiskey, father of electronic ink". visionect.com. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
