Jerome Drexler

Author's Web site: http://jeromedrexler.org

Jerome Drexler is the author of four astro-cosmology books (published in 2003, 2006, 2008, and 2009), a former Research Professor in physics at NJIT, former Chairman and chief scientist of LaserCard Corp. (Nasdaq: LCRD) and former Member of the Technical Staff and group supervisor at Bell Laboratories. He has been awarded 76 U.S. patents, honorary Doctor of Science degrees from NJIT and Upsala College, a degree of Honorary Fellow of the Technion, an Honorary Life Member of the Technion Board of Governors, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship at Stanford University, a three-year Bell Labs graduate study fellowship, the 1990 "Inventor of the Year Award" for Silicon Valley, and the first patent on an optical disk "Laser Optical Storage System."