Joseph Woodland

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Joseph Woodland is best known as the inventor of the barcode, for which he received US Patent 2,612,994 in October of 1952[1].

He worked for The Manhattan Project before joining IBM. In 1993 he was awarded the National Medal of Technology from President George H. W. Bush[2].

Woodland has a bachelors degree from Drexel University and a masters degree from Syracuse University.

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  1. ^ "US Patent Office"
  2. ^ "New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame"
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