SVLS Inventor Portraits find a Permanent Home in Hohbach Hall of Technology at
Stanford University Green Library
My patron Harold Hohbach, President of the Silicon Valley Luminary Society, passed away in December 2017 at the age of 96. Before he passed he made a bequest to Stanford University to fund a museum to hold Stanford's extensive collection of technology and the SVLS paintings. The first floor of the Green Library on the campus is being retrofitted and remodeled to include “Hohbach Hall of Technology.” All eight of my group portraits will be rotated into the exhibits as they change. There will be at least two up at all times.
Biotechnology – Five Inventors – 72 x 108" oil on linen: (L to R) Alejandro Zaffaroni – drug delivery system, Carl Djerassi – birth control pill, William J. Rutter – Hepatitus B vaccine, Stanley N. Cohen – recombinant DNA, Herbert W. Boyer – recombinant DNA
Computers – Five Inventors – 72 x 108" oil on linen: (L to R) Reynold Johnson – magnetic disc storage, Douglas Engelbart – interactive computing and mouse, Alan C. Kay – with GUI computer interface and Alto computer at PARC, Gene Amdahl – air-cooled mainframe computer, Steve Wozniak – personal computer
Medical Devices– Five Inventors – 72 x 108" oil on linen: (L to R) Thomas S. Fogarty – embolectomy balloon catheters, Rodney Perkins – LaserScope, John Simpson – angioplasty balloon slidaby mounted on guidewire, Paul Yock – rapid exchange angioplasty catheter, Mir A. Imran – ablation catheter
Post WWII Inventors – Five Inventors – 72 x 108" oil on linen: (L to R) William W. Hansen – traveling wave tube, Russell H. Varian – klystron, Felix Bloch – nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, Charles P. Ginsberg – video tape recorder, Ray Dolby – noise reduction system
Scientists – Five Inventors – 72 x 108" oil on linen: (L to R) Glenn T. Seaborg – plutonium, Robert Oppenheimer – atom bomb, Edward Teller – hydrogen bomb, Charles H. Townes – co-inventor laser, Arthur Schawlow – co-inventor laser
Semiconductors – Five Inventors – 72 x 108" oil on linen: (L to R) William Shockley – co-inventor transistor, Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff, Jr. – microprocessor, Robert N. Noyce – integrated circuit, Jean Hoerni – planar technology, Gordon Moore – Moore's Law
“Computer Networking and Internet Connectivity Pioneers of Silicon Valley” – Five Inventors – 72 x 108" oil on linen: (L to R) Don Nielson, Vint Cerf, Sandy Lerner, Robert Metcalfe, & Larry Roberts
“Internet Commerce Pioneers of Silicon Valley”– Five Inventors – 72 x 108" oil on linen: (L to R) Pierre Omidyar, Mark Zuckerberg, Jerry Yang, Marc Andreessen, & Larry Page