ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The inventor of the modern cleanroom, Willis Whitfield, will be honored posthumously by the National Inventors Hall of Fame for a technology that revolutionized manufacturing in electronics and pharmaceuticals, made hospital operating rooms safer and advanced space exploration. Whitfield, the son of Texas cotton farmers who became a physicist, retired from Sandia […]
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Laminar-flow cleanroom inventor honored posthumously by National Inventors Hall of Fame
March 4, 2014 – 9:00 am
Modern-day cleanroom invented by Sandia physicist still used 50 years later
November 26, 2012 – 10:00 am
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When Willis Whitfield invented the modern-day cleanroom 50 years ago, researchers and industrialists didn’t believe it at first. But within a few short years, $50 billion worth of laminar-flow cleanrooms were being built worldwide and the invention is used in hospitals, laboratories and manufacturing plants today. The retired Sandia National Laboratories physicist, […]