International Angel Investors organization for his venture-capital activities supporting the semiconductor industry Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies at California State University, Hayward 2002: "Top 100 Chief Executives" by Chief Executive 2005 : Inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame. 2006: Honored with a Fellow Award from the International Engineering Consortium. 2009: Spirit of Ireland Award Patents 1975US3878552 – Bipolar Integrated Circuit and MethodUS3924265 – Low capacitance V groove MOS NOR gate and method of manufacture 1976US3975221 – Low capacitance V groove MOS NOR gate and method of manufacture 1980US4222063 – VMOS Floating gate memory with breakdown voltage loweringregionUS4222062 – VMOS Floating gate memory device 1981CA1115426 – U-groove mos device 1988US5835401 – DRAM with hidden refreshUS4764248 – Rapid thermal nitridized oxide locos process 1999US5977638 – Edge metal for interconnect layers 2000US6131140 – Integrated cache memory with system control logic and adaptation of RAM bus to a cache pinout 2001US6185126 – Self-initializing RAM-based programmable device 2004US6835616 – Method of forming a floating metal structure in an integratedcircuitUS6730545 – Method of performing back-end manufacturing of an integrated circuit deviceUS2004076712 – Fermentation tank wine press 2005US6903002 – Low-k dielectric layer with air gapsUS6847218 – Probe card with an adapter layer for testing integrated circuits 2006US7045387 – Method of performing back-end manufacturing of an integrated circuit 2007US7227804 – Current source architecture for memory device standby current reduction 2008US2008315847 – Programmable floating gate referenceUS2008102160 – Wine-making press 2009US7507944 – Non-planar packaging of image sensor 2017US9624094 – Hydrogen barriers in a copper interconnect process Bibliography See also Milton Friedman – Nobel Prize-winning economist, debated Rodgers and Mackey John Mackey – founder of Whole Foods Market, debated Rodgers and Friedman References External links – A debate between John Mackey, Milton Friedman, and T.J. Rodgers Text of Rodger's letter to Sister Gormley. Profile from Dartmouth College upon his election to the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees T.J. Rodgers – Libertarian from the Advocates for Self-Government website Mr. Rodgers Goes to Dartmouth A cautionary tale about a businessman who ventured back into the Ivory Tower. Interview in the Wall Street Journal'' 2008-02-15 Living people Dartmouth College alumni American inventors American libertarians American chief executives of manufacturing companies 1948 births American technology chief executives People from Oshkosh, Wisconsin Businesspeople from Wisconsin People from Woodside, California Dartmouth Big Green football players