Kurt Schroder ‘90 is most widely known for his ground-breaking work with nanoparticles, but his illustrious career as an inventor began when he was a student at MIT.
After realising that he was not cut out to be a “traditional” physicist, he found his niche in using experimentation to improve everyday items that were poorly designed, such as the hammer, which he subsequently revolutionalised.
His later work with Nanotechnologies led him to develop a way of using nanoparticles of silver to save ageing dogs, and he also used a $7 camera to brainstorm a new thermal processing technique that has since transformed the mass production of electronic circuits.
He holds 41 US patents and over 70 international ones, and his inventions are used in the manufacture of many consumer electronics that we use today.