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Dr James E. West is an African-American inventor and scientist. He was born in Prince Eward County, Virginia on February 10, 1931. He is best known for inventing, along with his colleague Gerhard Sessler, a type of electronic microphone which revolutionized audio quality; to this day, the vast majority of audio devices use the technology that West developed in 1962. He won many engineering awards over the years, and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

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