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ATM PIN inventor inducted into hall of fame

October 13, 2016

James Goodfellow, the Scotsman who developed and patented the four-digit ATM personal identification number 50 years ago, has been honored with induction into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame.

Scotland's Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders created the hall of fame in 2011 to celebrate notable Scots, according to a report by the Famagusta Gazette.

Goodfellow is one of four recently announced hall of fame inductees, according to the report. The others include structural engineer Sir Duncan Michael; Robert Stevenson, the designer of lighthouses used to guide merchant ships; and Scottish-born American Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone.

Goodfellow, who was born in 1937, was honored by the Order of the British Empire in 2006, but has never received royalties for his now-ubiquitous invention.