I am honored to have been under contract with the Silicon
Valley Luminary Society to complete an historic series of portraits
of Silicon Valley inventors who have made world-changing contributions
to science and technology.
The non-profit
Silicon Valley Luminary Society was founded by retired patent
attorney Harold C. Hohbach to create a series of museum-quality
portraits, by time period or industry, portraying Silicon Valley
inventors and their inventions. The goal of the project is
to inspire the next generation of young people to follow in
the footsteps of these pioneers.
Each portrait
in the series is painted in oil on a 6 ft x 9 ft linen
canvas and includes 5 inventors, along with their inventions,
portrayed at the age they were when they made their breakthroughs.
All six group portraits are now finished. |
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Portraits
Finished or in Process:
Semiconductor
Inventors Portrait (L
to R) William Shockley, Ted Hoff, Robert Noyce, Jean Hoerni,
Gordon Moore – 72
x 108" oil on linen
Semiconductors:
Five Inventors – Finished
(photo above)
A.
William Shockley – co-inventor transistor
B. Robert N. Noyce – integrated circuit
C. Jean Hoerni – planar technology
D. Gordon Moore – Moore’s Law
E. Marcian E. Hoff, Jr. – microprocessor
Computer
Inventors Portrait (L to R) Reynolds Johnson, Douglas Engelbart,
Alan Kay, Gene Amdahl, and Steve Wozniak – 72
x 108" oil on linen
Computers:
Five Inventors – Finished (Photo Above)
A.
Reynolds Johnson – magnetic disc storage
B. Douglas Engelbart – interactive computing and mouse
C. Alan C. Kay – with GUI computer interface and Alto computer
at PARC
D. Steve Wozniak – personal computer
E. Gene Amdahl – air-cooled mainframe computer
Post
WWII Inventors Portrait (L
to R) William
W. Hansen, Russell H. Varian, Felix Bloch, Charles P. Ginsberg
and Ray Dolby – 72
x 108" oil on linen
Five
Post WWII Inventors – Finished (Photo Above)
A. William W. Hansen - traveling
wave tube
B. Russell H. Varian – klystron
C. Felix Bloch – nuclear magnetic resonance imaging
D. Charles P. Ginsberg – video tape recorder
E. Ray Dolby – noise reduction system
Physicist
Inventors Portrait (L to R) Glenn T. Seaborg, Robert
Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, Charles H. Townes, and Arthur
Schawlow – 72
x 108" oil on linen
Physicists:
Five Inventors – Finished (Photo Above)
A.
Glenn T. Seaborg – plutonium
B. Robert Oppenheimer – atom bomb
C. Edward Teller – hydrogen bomb
D. Charles H. Townes – co-inventor laser
E. Arthur Schawlow – co-inventor laser
 Medical Device Inventors Portrait (L to R) Thomas S. Fogarty, Rodney Perkins, John Simpson, Paul Yock, Mir A. Imran – 72
x 108" oil on linen
Medical
Devices: Five Inventors –– Finished (Photo Above)
A.
Thomas S. Fogarty – embolectomy balloon catheters
B. John Simpson – angioplasty balloon slidaby mounted
on guidewire
C. Paul Yock – rapid exchange angioplasty catheter
D. Rodney Perkins – LaserScope
E. Mir A. Imran – ablation
catheter
 Biotechnology Inventors Portrait (L to R) Alejandro Zaffaroni, Carl Djerassi, William J. Rutter, Stanley Cohen, and Herbert W. Boyer – 72
x 108" oil on linen
Biotechnology:
Five Inventors – Finished
A. Alejandro Zaffaroni – drug delivery system
B. Carl Djerassi – birth control pill
C. William J. Rutter – Hepatitus
B vaccine
D.
Stanley Cohen – recombinant DNA
E. Herbert W. Boyer – recombinant DNA
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