Ford Catalyst Pioneer Inducted into Inventors Hall of Fame

Former Ford Motor Co. research engineer and automobile exhaust catalyst inventor Haren Gandhi has been inducted posthumously into the U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum in Alexandria, Va.

Gandhi, who worked at Ford from 1967 until his death in 2010, is credited as the inventor of the automotive exhaust catalyst. Under his direction, Ford became the first company to employ non-platinum and non-rhodium three-way catalyst technology in the U.S. Gandhi holds 167 global patents, most of which are related to automotive exhaust catalysis.

Gandhi was the only one of this year’s class of 15 Hall of Fame inductees to work in the auto industry. More than 500 people have been inducted since the organization was founded in 1973. The only other Ford member is company founder Henry Ford.