Velcro
De Mestral gave the name "Velcro", a portmanteau of the French words "velour" ("velvet") and "crochet" ("hook"), to his invention as well as his company, which continues to manufacture and market the fastening system.
William Cronk Elmore
William Cronk Elmore (September 16, 1909 - January 23, 2003) was an American physicist, educator, and author who is best known for his work on and related to the Manhattan project during World War II and as a professor of Physics at Swarthmore College, PA from 1938 to 1974. Bill Elmore authored two influential books during his life, "Electronics-Experimental Techniques" with Matthew Sands and the "Physics of Waves" with Mark Heald. He is also known for deriving a simple approximation for the delay through an RC network, known as the Elmore delay.