We have lots to brag about at UF. Did you know that we’ve invented more than Gatorade. Here are a few groundbreaking inventions by UF researchers and alumni:
🔼 Triple-quadruple mass spectrometer, analytical instrument now used daily in drug development, disease testing, food safety and environmental studies (late 1970s), by Dr. Richard Yost.
▶️ UV-light dye absorbers for eyeglass lenses (1983), by Dr. Herbert Wertheim
LINAC Scalpel, which improves tenfold the accuracy of radiation for brain tumors (1988), by Frank Bova (PHD ’77) and Dr. William Friedman (HS ’82).
▶️ First lab-grown skin grafts for burn victims (1990), by Dr. Ammon Peck.
▶️ Metallic compound that allows chemists to build new molecules (1992), by Dr. Robert Grubbs (BS ’63, MS ’65), for which he was awarded 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
▶️ Trusopt, first topical treatment for glaucoma (1995), by Dr. Thomas Maren.
▶️ Sentricon termite colony elimination system (1995), by Dr. Nan-Yao Su.
▶️ Graphics processing unit...
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