The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation was founded in 1995 through the generosity of Jerome Lemelson, one of America’s most prolific independent inventors, and his family.
Lemelson Center Team 2017
- Arthur Daemmrich, Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Director
- Jeffrey Brodie, Deputy Director
- Joyce Bedi, Senior Historian
- Nyssa Buning, Spark!Lab National Network Coordinator
- Tricia Edwards, Head of Education
- Zach Etsch, Spark!Lab Lead Facilitator
- Laura Havel, Public Affairs Specialist
- Eric Hintz, Historian and Fellowship Coordinator
- Jocelyn Knauf, Spark!Lab Floor Manager
- Anna Mayfield, Spark!Lab Facilitator
- Laurel Miller, Spark!Lab and Public Programs Manager
- Alison Oswald, Archivist and Travel-to-Collections Coordinator
- Tim Pula, Interpretive Exhibits Coordinator
- William Reynolds, Finance and Administration Officer
- Mary Kate Robbett, Spark!Lab Facilitator
- Monica Smith, Head of Exhibitions and Interpretation
The Lemelson Center is grateful for the hundreds of volunteers and Smithsonian staff members who assisted with Draper Spark!Lab, Inventive Minds, Places of Invention, special events, and other public programs.
Lemelson Center 2017 Advisory Committee
- Lisa Cook, Associate Professor, Economics and International Relations, Michigan State University
- Susannah Fox, Health Policy Analyst and Innovation Leader
- Robert Horton, Chair, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Corinna (Cori) Lathan, Founder and CEO, AnthroTronix
- Henry Lowood, Curator, History of Science & Technology Collections, Stanford University Libraries
- Bill Masters, Founder, Perception Kayaks
- Kevin McGovern, Chairman and CEO, McGovern Capital
- Christine Peterson, Executive Director (retired), Stanford Research Institute
- Trevor Pinch, Professor, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
- Leonard Polizzotto, Vice President (retired), Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
- Christopher Weaver, Visiting Faculty, MIT; Co-director, Smithsonian Lemelson Center Video Game Pioneers Archive
- Dorothy, Robert, and Eric Lemelson, ex officio members