April 23, 2007

Dr. Lubomyr Romankiw named Cambridge Who's Who Professional of the Year representing Essential Innovations

Cambridge Who's Who and Dr. Lubomyr Romakiw
Dr. Lubomyr Romankiw named Cambridge Who's Who Professional of the Year representing Essential Innovations


Yorktown Heights, NY…April 23, 2007– Dr. Lubomyr Romankiw, Fellow and Executive of IBM T.J. Watson Research Center has been named Cambridge Who's Who Professional of the Year representing Essential Innovations.
While inclusion in Cambridge Who's Who is an honor, only one member in each discipline is named the Cambridge Who's Who Professional of the Year. The Cambridge Who's Who selection committee picks these special Who's Who honorees based on accomplishments, academic achievement, leadership, and service.
Romankiw is a life-long researcher whose work on patents led to the use of magnetic thin-film storage heads in commercial products. This innovation greatly increased the storage density of magnetic recording heads, and is employed in today's most advanced products. Romankiw is also listed as an inventor or co-inventor on more than 57 U.S. patents and over 120 published inventions. He has authored 150 papers and edited 10 volumes of technical symposia.
Romankiw earned his Ph.D. from MIT in 1962. He is the recipient of the Perkin Medal from Societies of Chemical Industries (1993), the Vittorio de Nora Medal from the Electrochemical Society (1994), the IEEE Morris A. Lieberman Award, the Inventor of the Year Award from Eastern New York Intellectual Property Law Association (2000), and Inventor of the Year Award from the New York Intellectual Property Law Association (2001). Romankiw received 13 Outstanding Invention and Contribution Awards from IBM and 25 Invention Achievement Awards.

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