Career
Forgoing college, Norris joined the United States Air Force in 1956 and was trained as a nuclear weapons specialist, taking courses at the University of New Mexico. In 1959, he became the director of the Engineering Experiment Station for the University of Washington.
In the ensuing years, Norris became a serial entrepreneur, founding and co-founding several public and private companies to raise capital to commercialize his inventions. Norris is currently the chairman of two of the public companies he founded - American Technology Corporation in San Diego, California and AirScooter Corporation in Henderson, Nevada in addition to heading his private companies.
Norris was the winner of the 2005 Lemelson-MIT Prize for his invention of a "hypersonic sound" system which allows sound to be focused with high precision. Norris said he plans to use the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize money to establish a charitable foundation to help struggling independent inventors. Norris' doppler effect-based medical tool was helpful to the development of the sonogram.
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