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Yorktown IBM Inventor Joins Hall of Fame
Lubomyr Romankiw, an IBM digital pioneer, and his former partner, David Thompson, will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Lubomyr Romankiw, a Briarcliff Manor resident since 1962, has been inventing since he was a child in Ukraine. His innovations and hard work have not gone unnoticed.
According to The Journal News, Romankiw and his former partner, David Thompson, are to be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame on May 4, 2012.
Thompson is retired, but Romankiw is still working hard at IBM’s Watson Research Center in Yorktown, a place where he will mark 50 years in December.
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Over that half-century, Romankiw has published 130 inventions. He’s working on technology that will harness solar power for everyday energy use, but it is the magnetic technology that he and Thompson started on in the 1960s that has earned them Hall honors.
Together, they created the first practical and manufacturable thin film magnetic head — the backbone for many of today’s household devices, such as DVRs and digital cameras.
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Romankiw grew up in Ukraine and fled from the Soviets to Canada when he was a teen. He studied chemical engineering in college and received his Ph.D. in natural sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
